Advertisement
AJPH
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

This Article
Right arrow Abstract Freely available
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Submit a response
Right arrow purchase articles
Right arrow View Shopping Cart
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when eLetters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Right arrow Get other permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Web of Science (73)
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Wright, R. J.
Right arrow Articles by Gold, D. R.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Wright, R. J.
Right arrow Articles by Gold, D. R.
Related Collections
Right arrow Injury/Emergency Care/Violence
Right arrow Other Child and Adolescent Health
Right arrow Socioeconomic Factors
Right arrow Asthma
Right arrow Urban Health
Community Violence and Asthma Morbidity: The Inner-City Asthma Study

Rosalind J. Wright, MD, MPH, Herman Mitchell, PhD, Cynthia M. Visness, MA, MPH, Sheldon Cohen, PhD, James Stout, MD, MPH, Richard Evans, MD, MPH and Diane R. Gold, MD, MPH

Rosalind J. Wright is with the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, and the Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. Herman Mitchell and Cynthia M. Visness are with Rho Inc, Federal Systems Division, Chapel Hill, NC. Sheldon Cohen is with the Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa. James Stout is with the Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Wash. Richard Evans is with the Department of Pediatrics and Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Ill. Diane R. Gold is with the Channing Laboratory, Dept of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School.




View larger version (44K):

[in a new window]
  		FIGURE 1—— Mean (a) maximum symptom days and (b) nights caretaker lost sleep, by level of adult exposure to violence: adjusted analyses.

Note. Behaviors = caretaker behaviors, including smoking, keeping children indoors, and skipping medications. Stress = Perceived Stress Scale and unwanted thoughts and memories. Each set of bars represents mean maximum symptom days (or nights caretaker lost sleep) adjusted for control variables. All models are adjusted for site, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status (SES) in addition to listed variates. Ps are for trends.

aSES includes adjustment for household income, employment, caretaker education, and housing deterioration.

 




HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Copyright © 2004 by the American Public Health Association