Abstract:Low-income mothers of children with uncontrolled asthma are an underserved population at risk for psychological distress. We examined the impact of violence exposure and child asthma morbidity on depressive symptoms in mothers of youths with uncontrolled asthma. Asthma symptoms and health care utilization, socio-demographics, and standardized measures of depressive symptoms and violence exposure were ascertained by self-report. Latent Growth Curve Modeling tested the associations of violence and asthma morbidi… Show more
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