TY - JOUR
T1 - Application of a novel socioeconomic measure using individual housing data in asthma research
T2 - An exploratory study
AU - Harris, Malinda N.
AU - Lundien, Matthew C.
AU - Finnie, Dawn M.
AU - Williams, Arthur R.
AU - Beebe, Timothy J.
AU - Sloan, Jeffrey A.
AU - Yawn, Barbara P.
AU - Juhn, Young J.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge support from the members of the Pediatric Asthma Epidemiology Research Unit and, in particular, Elizabeth Krusemark for her administrative support.
PY - 2014/6/26
Y1 - 2014/6/26
N2 - BACKGROUND: A housing-based socioeconomic index (HOUSES) was previously developed to overcome an absence of socioeconomic status (SES) measures in common databases. HOUSES is associated with child health outcomes in Olmsted County, Minnesota, USA, but generalisability to other geographic areas is unclear. AIM: To assess whether HOUSES is associated with asthma outcomes outside Olmsted County, Minnesota, USA. METHODS: Using a random sample of children with asthma from Sanford Children's Hospital, Sioux Falls, SD, USA, asthma status was determined. The primary outcome was asthma control status using Asthma Control Test and a secondary outcome was risk of persistent asthma. Home address information and property data were merged to formulate HOUSES. Other SES measures were examined: income, parental education (PE), Hollingshead and Nakao-Treas index. RESULTS: Of a random sample of 200 children, 80 (40%) participated in the study. Of those, 13% had poorly controlled asthma. Addresses of 94% were matched with property data. HOUSES had moderate-good correlation with other SES measures except PE. Poor asthma control rates were 31.6%, 4.8% and 5.6% for patients in the lowest, intermediate and highest tertiles of HOUSES, respectively (P = 0.023). HOUSES as a continuous variable was inversely associated with poorly controlled asthma (adjusted odds ratio (OR) = 0.21 per 1 unit increase of HOUSES, 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.05-0.89, P = 0.035). HOUSES as a continuous variable was inversely related to risk of persistent asthma (OR: 0.36 per 1 unit increase of HOUSES, 95% CI, 0.12-1.04, P = 0.06). CONCLUSIONS: HOUSES appears to be generalisable and available as a measure of SES in asthma research in the absence of conventional SES measures.
AB - BACKGROUND: A housing-based socioeconomic index (HOUSES) was previously developed to overcome an absence of socioeconomic status (SES) measures in common databases. HOUSES is associated with child health outcomes in Olmsted County, Minnesota, USA, but generalisability to other geographic areas is unclear. AIM: To assess whether HOUSES is associated with asthma outcomes outside Olmsted County, Minnesota, USA. METHODS: Using a random sample of children with asthma from Sanford Children's Hospital, Sioux Falls, SD, USA, asthma status was determined. The primary outcome was asthma control status using Asthma Control Test and a secondary outcome was risk of persistent asthma. Home address information and property data were merged to formulate HOUSES. Other SES measures were examined: income, parental education (PE), Hollingshead and Nakao-Treas index. RESULTS: Of a random sample of 200 children, 80 (40%) participated in the study. Of those, 13% had poorly controlled asthma. Addresses of 94% were matched with property data. HOUSES had moderate-good correlation with other SES measures except PE. Poor asthma control rates were 31.6%, 4.8% and 5.6% for patients in the lowest, intermediate and highest tertiles of HOUSES, respectively (P = 0.023). HOUSES as a continuous variable was inversely associated with poorly controlled asthma (adjusted odds ratio (OR) = 0.21 per 1 unit increase of HOUSES, 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.05-0.89, P = 0.035). HOUSES as a continuous variable was inversely related to risk of persistent asthma (OR: 0.36 per 1 unit increase of HOUSES, 95% CI, 0.12-1.04, P = 0.06). CONCLUSIONS: HOUSES appears to be generalisable and available as a measure of SES in asthma research in the absence of conventional SES measures.
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U2 - 10.1038/npjpcrm.2014.18
DO - 10.1038/npjpcrm.2014.18
M3 - Article
C2 - 24965967
AN - SCOPUS:84904389924
SN - 2055-1010
VL - 24
JO - npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
JF - npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
M1 - 14018
ER -