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  • Pediatric Health
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Epidemiology

Background:

  • Asthma affects 1 in 12 US children, with Black children disproportionately diagnosed.
  • Environmental factors are studied, but psychosocial stress links to pediatric asthma disparities are less explored.
  • This research investigates interpersonal racism's impact on asthma in Black children.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the association between children's exposure to interpersonal racism and asthma diagnosis.
  • To analyze national representative data for insights into health disparities.
  • To identify psychosocial stressors contributing to pediatric asthma.

Main Methods:

  • Quantitative analysis of the 2021-2022 National Health Interview Survey data.
  • Primary exposure: self-reported interpersonal racism; Primary outcome: lifetime asthma diagnosis.
  • Logistic regression models (unadjusted and adjusted) were used to analyze the data.

Main Results:

  • Interpersonal racism was associated with more than double the odds of asthma in unadjusted models (OR 2.26).
  • Even after adjusting for covariates, interpersonal racism remained significantly linked to asthma prevalence (aOR 1.35).
  • The association persisted, indicating racism's independent effect on asthma.

Conclusions:

  • Children exposed to interpersonal racism exhibit significantly higher odds of asthma.
  • This association is independent of demographic, healthcare, and other health factors.
  • Findings underscore the need to include interpersonal racism in pediatric asthma disparity models.