Some family social background, developmental and behavioural characteristics of nine year old children with asthma

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Some family social background, developmental and behavioural characteristics of nine year old children with asthma

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Otago University Research Archive

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Children with moderate and severe, mild, and trivial asthma were compared with a group of children who did not have asthma on a range of measures including family social background (socioeconomic status, family adversity, family environment), intelligence, reading, spelling, and behaviour. None of the background measures significantly differentiated among the groups. The group of children with moderate and severe asthma was found to have a significantly lower mean score for verbal intelligenc...

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Article

Date created

1987

Creator

Silva, P.A. / Sears, M.R. / Jones, D.T. / Holdaway, M.D. / Hewitt, C.J. / Flannery, E.M. / Williams, S.M.

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/14889

Related subjects

asthma / behaviour / child behaviour / family characteristics / Family Adversity Index / Family Environment Scale (FES) / FES / intelligence / IQ / respiratory health / sex factors / reading / socioeconomic factors

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