Björn Bouwmeester Stjernetun, Catharina Gillsjö, Elzana Odzakovic, Jenny Hallgren
"It´s like walking in a bubble", nursing students´ perspectives on age suit simulation in a home environment - group interviews from reflection seminars
BMC nursing
asthma linked student absenteeism risk factor poor achievement school dropout studies asthma absenteeism common limitations including relying parentreported asthma may unreliable prone selection inadequately accounting confounding health social risks therefore rate absenteeism attributable asthma extent better asthma control would translate better attendance remain unclear participants 1194 students 2 large urban us schools 1 elementary 1 middle 20162018 student asthma assessed based parent report health forms studentreported asthmarelated emergency departmenthospitalization medication use school health center record asthma multiple imputation used reduce selection missing asthma reports relationship asthma school districtreported days absent estimated using poisson random intercept regression accounting health demographic covariates parentreported ever asthma 27 associated absenteeism adjusted models studentreported asthma health care medication use 16 school health center record asthma 17 associated higher absenteeism incidence rate ratio irr 116 95 confidence interval ci 101135 irr 121 95 ci 109134 respectively studentreported asthma school health center record asthma associated 19 15 absences per year respectively studentreported school health center record asthma explained 14 18 student absenteeism even accounting health social risks possible student reports supplement parent reports ensure students asthma identified obtain access care