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Childhood Asthma

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Handbook of Child Psychopathology

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Pediatric asthma is increasingly a problem for children, their families, and society. An estimated 20 to 30 million Americans-8 to 12% of the population—have asthma ([Pope, Patterson, & Burge, 1993]). Approximately half of the Americans with asthma are children; it is conservatively estimated that 10% of all children in the United States have the disorder ([Gergen, Mullally, & Evans, 1988]). Asthma is the major cause of school absenteeism related to chronic physical conditions and is the leading cause of child hospitalization. In 1990 alone, children between the ages of 5 and 17 missed more than 10 million days of school, had an estimated 160,000 hospitalizations, and made 860,000 emergency room visits ([Weiss, Gergen, & Hodgson, 1992]). Treatment of pediatric asthma is expensive; Marion, Creer, and Reynolds ([1985]) found that childhood asthma consumed up to one-third of a family’s income. These findings were almost identical to those reported by Vance and Taylor (1971) a decade earlier. Darkening the bleak picture created by these bits of data is the fact that there is no cure for asthma.

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Creer, T.L. (1998). Childhood Asthma. In: Ollendick, T.H., Hersen, M. (eds) Handbook of Child Psychopathology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5905-4_16

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