Stress and the city: Housing stressors are associated with respiratory health among low socioeconomic status Chicago children

Journal of Urban Health

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 688-702

  Quinn, Kelly ^a   Kaufman, Jay S ^b   Siddiqi, Arjumand ^a   Yeatts, Karin B ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asthma; Chronic disease; Environmental health; Health disparities; Inner city health; Low socioeconomic status and health; Psychological stress; Stressors

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH DISPARITY; HOUSING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ASTHMA; CHICAGO; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HOUSING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; POVERTY; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 77954634564     PISSN: 10993460     EISSN: 14682869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11524-010-9465-1     Document Type: Article

References (73)

1. Akinbami LJ. The state of childhood asthma, United States, 1980-2005. Advance data from vital and health statistics. 2006; 381.
2. Gold DR, Wright R. Population disparities in asthma. Annu Rev Public Health. 2005; 26: 89-113.
3. Marder D, Targonski P, Orris P, Persky V, Addington W. Effect of racial and socioeconomic factors on asthma mortality in Chicago. Chest. 1992; 101(6 Suppl): 426S - 429S.
4. Thomas SD, Whitman S. Asthma hospitalizations and mortality in Chicago: an epidemiologic overview. Chest. 1999; 116(4 Suppl 1): 135S-141S.
5. Persky VW, Slezak J, Contreras A, et al. Relationships of race and socioeconomic status with prevalence, severity, and symptoms of asthma in Chicago school children. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 1998; 81(3): 266-271.
6. Weiss KB, Wagener DK. Geographic variations in US asthma mortality: small-area analyses of excess mortality, 1981-1985. Am J Epidemiol. 1990; 132(1 Suppl): S107-S115.
7. Weiss KB, Wagener DK. Changing patterns of asthma mortality. Identifying target populations at high risk. JAMA. 1990; 264(13): 1683-1687.
8. Weiss KB. Eliminating asthma disparities: introduction to the Chicago story. Chest. 2007; 132(5 Suppl): 856S-857S.
9. Cagney KA, Browning CR. Exploring neighborhood-level variation in asthma and other respiratory diseases: the contribution of neighborhood social context. J Gen Intern Med. 2004; 19(3): 229-236.
10. Sandel M, Wright RJ. When home is where the stress is: expanding the dimensions of housing that influence asthma morbidity. Arch Dis Child. 2006; 91(11): 942-948.
11. Wright RJ, Subramanian SV. Advancing a multilevel framework for epidemiologic research on asthma disparities. Chest. 2007; 132(5 Suppl): 757S-769S.
12. Wright RJ, Cohen RT, Cohen S. The impact of stress on the development and expression of atopy. Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol. 2005; 5(1): 23-29.
13. Cohen S, Kessler R, Underwood GL. Measuring stress: a guide for health and social scientists. New York: Oxford University Press; 1995.
14. Wright RJ, Cohen S, Carey V, Weiss ST, Gold DR. Parental stress as a predictor of wheezing in infancy: a prospective birth-cohort study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2002; 165(3): 358-365.
15. Wright RJ, Finn P, Contreras JP, et al. Chronic caregiver stress and IgE expression, allergen-induced proliferation, and cytokine profiles in a birth cohort predisposed to atopy. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2004; 113(6): 1051-1057.
16. Wright RJ. Stress and atopic disorders. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2005; 116(6): 1301-1306.
17. Wright RJ. Prenatal maternal stress and early caregiving experiences: implications for childhood asthma risk. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2007; 21(Suppl 3): 8-14.
18. Mrazek DA, Klinnert M, Mrazek PJ, et al. Prediction of early-onset asthma in genetically at-risk children. Pediatr Pulmonol. 1999; 27(2): 85-94.
19. Ippoliti F, De Santis W, Volterrani A, et al. Psychological stress affects response to sublingual immunotherapy in asthmatic children allergic to house dust mite. Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 2006; 17(5): 337-345.
20. Chen E, Chim LS, Strunk RC, Miller GE. The role of the social environment in children and adolescents with asthma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2007; 176(7): 644-649.
21. Sandberg S, Jarvenpaa S, Penttinen A, Paton JY, McCann DC. Asthma exacerbations in children immediately following stressful life events: a Cox's hierarchical regression. Thorax. 2004; 59(12): 1046-1051.
22. Sandberg S, Paton JY, Ahola S, et al. The role of acute and chronic stress in asthma attacks in children. Lancet. 2000; 356(9234): 982-987.
23. Annett RD, Bender BG, DuHamel TR, Lapidus J. Factors influencing parent reports on quality of life for children with asthma. J Asthma. 2003; 40(5): 577-587.
24. Archea C, Yen IH, Chen H, et al. Negative life events and quality of life in adults with asthma. Thorax. 2007; 62(2): 139-146.
25. Booker CL, Gallaher P, Unger JB, Ritt-Olson A, Johnson CA. Stressful life events, smoking behavior, and intentions to smoke among and multiethnic sample of sixth graders. Ethn Health. 2004; 9(4): 369-397.
26. Bartlett SJ, Kolodner K, Butz AM, Eggleston P, Malveaux FJ, Rand CS. Maternal depressive symptoms and emergency department use among inner-city children with asthma. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2001; 155(3): 347-353.
27. Christiaanse ME, Lavigne JV, Lerner CV. Psychosocial aspects of compliance in children and adolescents with asthma. J Dev Behav Pediatr. 1989; 10(2): 75-80.
28. Cluley S, Cochrane GM. Psychological disorder in asthma is associated with poor control and poor adherence to inhaled steroids. Respir Med. 2001; 95(1): 37-39.
29. Haavet OR, Straand J, Saugstad OD, Grunfeld B. Illness and exposure to negative life experiences in adolescence: two sides of the same coin? A study of 15-year-olds in Oslo, Norway. Acta Paediatr. 2004; 93(3): 405-411.
30. Weil CM, Wade SL, Bauman LJ, Lynn H, Mitchell H, Lavigne J. The relationship between psychosocial factors and asthma morbidity in inner-city children with asthma. Pediatrics. 1999; 104(6): 1274-1280.
31. Wright RJ, Mitchell H, Visness CM, et al. Community violence and asthma morbidity: the Inner-City Asthma Study. Am JPublic Health. 2004; 94(4): 625-632.
32. Shalowitz MU, Mijanovich T, Berry CA, Clark-Kauffman E, Quinn KA, Perez EL. Context matters: a community-based study of maternal mental health, life stressors, social support, and children's asthma. Pediatrics. 2006; 117(5): e940-e948.
33. Wood PR, Smith LA, Romero D, Bradshaw P, Wise PH, Chavkin W. Relationships between welfare status, health insurance status, and health and medical care among children with asthma. Am J Public Health. 2002; 92(9): 1446-1452.
34. Riley AW, Finney JW, Mellits ED, et al. Determinants of children's health care use: an investigation of psychosocial factors. Med Care. 1993; 31(9): 767-783.
35. Wright RJ. Health effects of socially toxic neighborhoods: the violence and urban asthma paradigm. Clin Chest Med. 2006; 27(3): 413-421. v.
36. Kozyrskyj AL, Mai XM, McGrath P, Hayglass KT, Becker AB, Macneil B. Continued exposure to maternal distress in early life is associated with an increased risk of childhood asthma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2008; 177(2): 142-147.
37. Suglia SF, Ryan L, Laden F, Dockery DW, Wright RJ. Violence exposure, a chronic psychosocial stressor, and childhood lung function. Psychosom Med. 2008; 70(2): 160-169.
38. Turyk ME, Hernandez E, Wright RJ, et al. Stressful life events and asthma in adolescents. Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 2008; 19(3): 255-263.
39. Shalowitz MU, Berry CA, Quinn KA, Wolf RL. The relationship of life stressors and maternal depression to pediatric asthma morbidity in a subspecialty practice. Ambul Pediatr. 2001; 1(4): 185-193.
40. Miller GE, Chen E. Life stress and diminished expression of genes encoding glucocorticoid receptor and beta2-adrenergic receptor in children with asthma. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2006; 103(14): 5496-5501.
41. Kilpelainen M, Koskenvuo M, Helenius H, Terho EO. Stressful life events promote the manifestation of asthma and atopic diseases. Clin Exp Allergy. 2002; 32(2): 256-263.
42. Maslov AH. A theory of human motivation. Psychological Review. 1943; 50: 370-396.
43. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Center for Environmental Assessment. Child-Specific Exposure Factors Handbook (Interim Report). 2002; EPA-600-P-00-002B.
44. Adler NE, Conner Snibbe A. The role of psychosocial processes in explaining the gradient between socioeconomic status and health. Curr Dir Psychol Sci. 2003; 12(4): 119-123.
45. Evans GW. The environment of childhood poverty. Am Psychol. 2004; 59(2): 77-92. doi 10.1037/0003-066X.59.2.77. (Pubitemid 38318024)
46. Williams DR, Sternthal M, Wright RJ. Social determinants: taking the social context of asthma seriously. Pediatrics. 2009; 123(Suppl 3): S174-S184. doi 10.1542/peds.2008-2233H.
47. Williams DR. Race, socioeconomic status, and health. The added effects of racism and discrimination. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1999; 896: 173-188.
48. McLeod JD, Kessler RC. Socioeconomic status differences in vulnerability to undesirable life events. J Health Soc Behav. 1990; 31(2): 162-172.
49. Marmot MG, Wilkinson RG. Social determinants of health. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press; 1999: 291.
50. Cohen S, Kaplan GA, Salonen JG. The role of psychological characteristics in the relation of socioeconomic status and perceived health. J Appl Soc Psychol. 1999; 29: 445-468.
51. Gee GC, Payne-Sturges DC. Environmental health disparities: a framework integrating psychosocial and environmental concepts. Environ Health Perspect. 2004; 112(17): 1645-1653.
52. Kessler RC. Stress, social status, and psychological distress. JHealth Soc Behav. 1979; 20 (3): 259-272.
53. Taylor SE, Repetti RL, Seeman T. Health psychology: what is an unhealthy environment and how does it get under the skin? Annu Rev Psychol. 1997; 48: 411-447.
54. Hertzman C. The biological embedding of early experience and its effects on health in adulthood. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1999; 896: 85-95.
55. Fullilove MT, Fullilove RE 3rd. What's housing got to do with it? Am J Public Health. 2000; 90(2): 183-184.
56. Wolf RL, Berry CA, Quinn K. Development and validation of a brief pediatric screen for asthma and allergies among children. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2003; 90(5): 500-507.
57. Berry CA, Quinn K, Wolf R, Mosnaim G, Shalowitz M. Validation of the Spanish and English versions of the asthma portion of the Brief Pediatric Asthma Screen Plus among Hispanics. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2005; 95(1): 53-60.
58. Greenland S, Pearl J, Robins JM. Causal diagrams for epidemiologic research. Epidemiology. 1999; 10(1): 37-48.
59. Maldonado G, Greenland S. Simulation study of confounder-selection strategies. Am J Epidemiol. 1993; 138(11): 923-936.
60. Baum A. Stress, intrusive imagery, and chronic distress. Health Psychol. 1990; 9(6): 653-675.
61. Nolen-Hoeksema S. The role of rumination in depressive disorders and mixed anxiety/depressive symptoms. J Abnorm Psychol. 2000; 109(3): 504-511.
62. Lyubomirsky S, Tucker KL, Caldwell ND, Berg K. Why ruminators are poor problem solvers: clues from the phenomenology of dysphoric rumination. J Pers Soc Psychol. 1999; 77(5): 1041-1060.
63. Barton C, Clarke D, Sulaiman N, Abramson M. Coping as a mediator of psychosocial impediments to optimal management and control of asthma. Respir Med. 2003; 97 (7): 747-761.
64. Rauh VA, Landrigan PJ, Claudio L. Housing and health: intersection of poverty and environmental exposures. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2008; 1136: 276-288.
65. Quinn K, Shalowitz MU, Berry CA, Mijanovich T, Wolf RL. Racial and ethnic disparities in diagnosed and possible undiagnosed asthma among public-school children in Chicago. Am J Public Health. 2006; 96(9): 1599-1603.
66. Shalowitz MU, Sadowski LM, Kumar R, Weiss KB, Shannon JJ. Asthma burden in a citywide, diverse sample of elementary schoolchildren in Chicago. Ambul Pediatr. 2007; 7 (4): 271-277.
67. Wright RJ, Steinbach SF. Violence: an unrecognized environmental exposure that may contribute to greater asthma morbidity in high risk inner-city populations. Environ Health Perspect. 2001; 109(10): 1085-1089.
68. Wright RJ. Further evidence that the wealthier are healthier: negative life events and asthma-specific quality of life. Thorax. 2007; 62(2): 106-108.
69. Clougherty JE, Levy JI, Kubzansky LD, et al. Synergistic effects of traffic-related air pollution and exposure to violence on urban asthma etiology. Environ Health Perspect. 2007; 115(8): 1140-1146. doi 10.1289/ehp.9863. (Pubitemid 351802344)
70. Wright RJ. Exploring biopsychosocial influences on asthma expression in both the family and community context. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2008; 177(2): 129-130.
71. Frankel K, Wamboldt MZ. Chronic childhood illness and maternal mental health - why should we care? J Asthma. 1998; 35(8): 621-630.
72. Gustafsson PA, Kjellman NI, Bjorksten B. Family interaction and a supportive social network as salutogenic factors in childhood atopic illness. Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 2002; 13(1): 51-57.
73. Hamlett KW, Pellegrini DS, Katz KS. Childhood chronic illness as a family stressor. J Pediatr Psychol. 1992; 17(1): 33-47.