Department of Health Sciences Faculty Articles
Title
Validity of the Family Asthma Management System Scale With an Urban African-American Sample
ISBN or ISSN
0146-8693
Volume
36
Issue
5
Publication Date / Copyright Date
6-1-2011
First Page
576
Last Page
585
Publisher
Oxford University Press
DOI Number
10.1093/jpepsy/jsp083
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To examine the reliability and validity of the Family Asthma Management System Scale for low-income African-American children with poor asthma control and caregivers under stress. The FAMSS assesses eight aspects of asthma management from a family systems perspective.
METHODS: Forty-three children, ages 8-13, and caregivers were interviewed with the FAMSS; caregivers completed measures of primary care quality, family functioning, parenting stress, and psychological distress. Children rated their relatedness with the caregiver, and demonstrated inhaler technique. Medical records were reviewed for dates of outpatient visits for asthma.
RESULTS: The FAMSS demonstrated good internal consistency. Higher scores were associated with adequate inhaler technique, recent outpatient care, less parenting stress and better family functioning. Higher scores on the Collaborative Relationship with Provider subscale were associated with greater perceived primary care quality.
CONCLUSIONS: The FAMSS demonstrated relevant associations with asthma management criteria and family functioning for a low-income, African-American sample.
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
Keywords
African Americans, Asthma, Caregivers, Parenting, Poverty, Reproducibility of Results, Stress, Psychological, Surveys and Questionnaires, Urban Population
NSUWorks Citation
Celano, Marianne; Klinnert, Mary D.; Holsey, Chanda Nicole DRPH, MPH, AE-C; and McQuaid, Elizabeth L., "Validity of the Family Asthma Management System Scale With an Urban African-American Sample" (2011). Department of Health Sciences Faculty Articles. 221.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hpd_hs_facarticles/221
