Predictors of flourishing for adolescents with asthma

Abstract

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine well-being or flourishing of adolescents with asthma as well as factors influencing flourishing for these adolescents. Methods: A secondary analysis of data collected for the 2011–2012 National Survey of Children’s Health was conducted. Flourishing of adolescents with and without asthma was compared. Parent coping and anger, child sex and age and child flourishing were examined for adolescents with asthma. Results: Youth with asthma had lower flourishing than those without this disease. Positive parent coping was related to flourishing, while parent anger negatively influenced flourishing of adolescents with asthma. Interaction terms were significant, indicating that the aforementioned variables interacted with adolescent age and sex. Conclusions: Study results point to a complex relationship between parent- and adolescent-level factors and adolescent well-being. Further research is needed to examine relations among flourishing and health outcomes in youth with asthma.

• Education
• pediatrics
• quality of life

Acknowledgements

Appreciation is extended to the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative for granting permission to use the data set (National Survey of Children’s Health).

Declaration of interest

The authors declared that no conflict of interest exists.

Notes

¹The analyses were also conducted using continuous variables with all of the interactions and this decreased the amount of variance predicted in the model, which reinforced the use of the ANOVA. Graphs representing complex interactions are available from the corresponding author.

²Some levels of variables did not have caregiver responses and this is the reason for missing points in the lines in figures.