Maria Fagnano

..To explore the relationship between environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure and behavior among inner-city children with significant asthma...

..Caregiver depression is common, can negatively influence one's ability to communicate with health care providers, and may hinder appropriate care for children with asthma...

..The aim of this study was to describe nocturnal asthma symptoms among urban children with asthma and assess the burden of sleep difficulties between children with varying levels of nocturnal symptoms...

..The results suggest that HL is associated with where caregivers obtain health information from for their children and their use of the Internet...

..To explore the relationship between sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and behavioral problems among inner-city children with asthma...

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..The goals were (1) to develop an index measure of environmental tobacco smoke based on parent self-report of smoking behaviors and (2) to determine whether the index score was associated with children's present and future cotinine levels...

..This article describes the development of the School-Based Preventive Asthma Care Technology (SB-PACT) trial...

..To evaluate the impact of the School-Based Asthma Therapy trial on asthma symptoms among urban children with persistent asthma...

..We sought to evaluate the degree to which urban children with persistent asthma are protected by household and car smoking bans, and to determine whether health care professionals are counseling parents to implement smoking bans...

..Low-income, minority teens have disproportionately high rates of asthma morbidity and are at high risk for nonadherence to preventive medications...

..Many parents experienced significant stress in their lives and used smoking to relieve their stress. Barriers to a smoke-free home included stress, addiction, and the use of ineffective strategies to reduce ETS exposure...

..To describe screen time use and factors related to screen time among urban children with persistent asthma...

..To determine whether clinician prompting regarding a child's symptom severity and guideline recommendations at the time of an office visit improves the delivery of preventive asthma care...

..The composite index also varied by visit type, with the highest scores noted for asthma-related visits, compared to well-child and other illness visits. This composite index has potential use for research and quality improvement efforts...

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..These biases were apparent as early as lexical information became available, showing that disfluency affects the basic processes of decoding linguistic input...

..The objective of this study was to examine cost-effectiveness (CE) of the School-Based Asthma Therapy (SBAT) program compared with usual care (UC)...

..Anticipating the strategies required to implement such an intervention may help promote participant engagement and retention to enhance the program's ultimate success...

..To describe which National Heart Lung and Blood Institute preventive actions are taken for children with persistent asthma symptoms at the time of a primary care visit and determine how care delivery varies by asthma symptom severity...

..Organizations making recommendations should consider how to disseminate new information through the Web...

..The visits resulted in improvements in motor and cognitive symptoms and suggest that telemedicine may be useful for delivering care to this population...

..This shows that discourse-new information can be accessible under some circumstances. More generally, it suggests that disfluency affects core language comprehension processes...