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Ganesh s. kumar.
Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India
Background:.
Bronchial asthma is an important public health problem at the global level. There is paucity of studies on bronchial asthma among school children in Urban India.
To assess the prevalence and associated factors of bronchial asthma among school children.
A cross-sectional study was conducted among 263 children studying in the 8 th , 9 th , and 10 th standard using the modified International Study on Allergy and Asthma in Childhood questionnaire in Urban Puducherry. Data on associated factors that include family history of asthma, type of fuel used for cooking, placement of kitchen in the house, number of windows in sleeping room, pet animals, smoking among family members, birth order, and smoke outlet were collected. Data were analyzed by univariate analysis and expressed in proportion or percentages.
Prevalence of ever bronchial asthma was found to be 5.3%, of which 4.2% had current episode of asthma during the last 1-year period. About 72.7% of the current asthmatics had cold or rhinitis and 54.5% each had itching or rashes and nocturnal dry cough. Prevalence is more among the 12-13 years age group (6.5%) compared to the 14-16 years age group (3.6%). Boys (5.4%) and girls (5.2%) had comparable prevalence rates. The prevalence was significantly more among those with a family history of asthma, having smoking habits in any of the family members, and the absence of smoke outlet in the house ( P < 0.05).
Bronchial asthma is an important health problem among children in urban Puducherry. Intervention on exposure to passive smoking and provision of smoke outlets may help to reduce the burden of disease at the community level.
Bronchial asthma is an important health issue, especially in developing countries like India. In the year 2004, India accounted for 277 Disability Adjusted Life Years lost per 1,00,000 population and 57,000 deaths.[ 1 ] During the childhood period, bronchial asthma is often underdiagnosed and undertreated, which may lead to severe psychosocial disturbances in the family.[ 2 ] National Family Health Survey-3 showed that the prevalence of bronchial asthma among school children of the age group 15-19 years in India is as little as 0.9%, whereas other studies showed varied results ranging from 1.9% to 16.6% in different age groups.[ 1 ] In urban areas, this problem is increasing due to increase in environmental smoke and air pollution resulting from urbanization and industrialization. A study conducted in Bangalore city among less than 18 years of age showed that asthma prevalence increased to quite a great extent from the year 1979 (9%) to 1999 (29.5%).[ 3 ]
There is paucity of information on the epidemiology of asthma in Urban India.[ 4 ] Contribution of each risk factor may vary in different settings and understanding the risk factors associated with asthma such as family history, type of fuel used, pet animals, indoor air pollution, birth order, smoking among family members, and others will help in adopting appropriate preventive strategies. With this background, this cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the prevalence and associated factors of bronchial asthma among school children in Urban Puducherry, India.
Setting and sample size.
This cross-sectional study was conducted during July-August 2012 in three schools of urban field practice area of a Medical Institution in Puducherry. The schools included two Government Schools, namely Calve College and Government Middle School, Kuruchikuppam, and one aided private society school. Since both government and private schools were included, we assume that it represents all the socio-economic strata from the population. Minimum sample size was found to be 250 subjects based on 22% prevalence rate, precision of 25%, and non-response rate of 10%. All 271 students studying in the 8 th to 10 th standard from the three schools were included as study subjects.
Prior written permission was obtained from the principals of schools to allow the students to participate in the study. A pretested and validated questionnaire was designed on the lines of the International Study on Allergy and Asthma in childhood questionnaire.[ 5 ] This was translated to the local language Tamil and translated back into English to ensure reliability and validity. A pilot test was conducted before initiating the study to consider the feasibility of administration of the questionnaire and accordingly minor modifications were carried out. After obtaining the informed consent, the designated respondent was interviewed as per the questionnaire. A child with symptom of wheezing or whistling in the chest in the past was considered as criteria for defining asthma. Other symptoms associated with asthma, which included numbers of attacks of wheezing, sleep and speech disturbance, and nocturnal cough, were collected.
A semi-structured proforma containing data regarding age and associated factors that include family history of asthma, type of fuel used, placement of kitchen in the house, number of windows in sleeping room, pet animals, smoking among family members, birth order, and smoke outlet were collected.
The collected data was entered and analyzed using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) version 11.0 for Windows. The findings were expressed in terms of proportions or percentages. Univariate analysis was carried out for associated factors to test the differences between proportions. P < 0.05 was considered as significant.
A total of 263 subjects in the age group of 12-16 years age group were analyzed with a response rate of 97.1%. The study found that most of the children belonged to the 12-13 years age group (58.2%) and were males (63.5%). Prevalence of ever bronchial asthma was found to be 5.3% and 4.2% had a current episode of asthma during the last 1-year period. About 72.7% of current asthmatics had cold or rhinitis. Nearly half (45.5%) of the current asthmatics had >3 episodes of wheezing and 54.5% of them had itching or rashes and nocturnal dry cough. About 18.2% of them were not diagnosed or treated for it [ Table 1 ].
Distribution of symptoms of asthma in the past year, N =11
Prevalence of asthma was more among the 12-13 years age group (6.5%) compared to the 14-16 years age group (3.6%); however, this difference was not found to be significant. Boys (5.4%) and girls (5.2%) had comparable prevalence rates of asthma. It was found that prevalence was significantly more among those with a family history of asthma, having smoking habits in any of family members, and the absence of smoke outlet in the house ( P < 0.05) [ Table 2 ].
Associated factors of asthma among school children in Urban Puducherry
Bronchial asthma among children is an important health issue for the concerned authorities in developing countries like India. A recent review analysis of 15 epidemiological studies showed that the mean prevalence of asthma among children was 7.24%. Urban and male predominance was observed with wide interregional variation.[ 4 ] Recent studies in India showed varied prevalence rates in different age groups and locations ranging from 0.9% to 15.7%.[ 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 ] The low level of prevalence found in National Family Health Survey-3 (2005-06) may be because of the lesser sensitivity of the questionnaire and self-reporting or lack of uniformity in the data collection process.
Studies have shown that prevalence is more in urban areas compared to rural areas.[ 4 , 9 ] A study conducted in Shimla city among school children aged 6-13 years showed the prevalence as 2.3%.[ 12 ] Another study from Jaipur conducted among urban school children aged 5-15 years showed the prevalence of asthma as 7.59%.[ 13 ] A study conducted in Bangalore among school children aged 6-15 years in heavy traffic area showed prevalence as high as 19.34%.[ 3 ] The prevalence of ever asthma was reported as 2.4% in a population study on 73,605 individuals of all age groups conducted simultaneously at four major centers in India.[ 14 ] Prevalence of asthma and wheeze reported were 3.3% and 7.8%, respectively, in a study conducted at Lucknow, in the age group 13-14 years.[ 8 ]
Studies from rural areas also show different prevalence rates. A recent study from rural Puducherry showed the prevalence as 8.6%, which is higher than that found in the present study.[ 15 ] A rural study from Karnataka showed the prevalence of bronchial asthma among the 6-15 years age group as 10.3%.[ 6 ] The prevalence of ever wheezers in a study among 10-18 years age group from rural Karnataka was 8.4% and current wheezers was 5.2%.[ 11 ] However, in general it was found that prevalence rate is more in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, and other developed countries, ranging from 15% to 20%.[ 1 , 16 , 17 ] A very high prevalence of history of wheezing was found in three studies in Costa Rica with 46.8%, 42.9%, and 45.1% in different age groups conducted among school children.[ 18 ] In contrast to this, it was shown by an Indian study that prevalence of asthma among adults aged ≥15 years is 2.05%.[ 19 ] This variation may be because of the difference in the exposure status of different risk factors in different geographical locations. Moreover, the definition of asthma, instrument used to define it, age group studied, methodology adopted, and urban – rural difference – all were responsible for this varied observation.
The prevalence of asthma was similar in both sexes in contrast to other studies.[ 4 , 6 ] It was comparatively more among younger age groups similar to other studies.[ 4 ] It was observed in our study that prevalence is significantly more among those with a family history of bronchial asthma similar to other studies.[ 6 , 15 ] Indoor air pollution due to biomass or solid fuel combustion is an important risk factor in the Indian setting.[ 3 , 20 ] Although the prevalence is more among those using firewood, we could not find any association with it. Our study has shown that the proportion of cases was significantly less among those who live in houses with smoke outlets. Exposure to passive tobacco smoke was shown to be an important risk factor in our study, similar to that in other studies.[ 14 , 21 , 22 ] A study has shown interactions between genotypes at specific loci or genome regions and environmental tobacco smoke exposure with risk for development of asthma.[ 23 ]
We could not find any association between bronchial asthma and factors like pets at home, birth order, and absence of windows in living rooms in contrast to other studies.[ 1 , 7 , 15 ] The study findings may not be generalized due to the different socio-demographic characteristics and the associated risk factors in the different settings. In addition, quantification of some of the risk factors could not be ascertained and diagnostic tests could not be conducted due to feasibility constraints.
Asthma among school children is a public health problem in urban Puducherry. Our study provides valuable information on the magnitude of the problem and certain risk factors, which can be utilized for preventive measures to be taken in the future. Intervention on exposure to passive smoking and provision of smoke outlets may help in the reduction of burden of disease at the community level. Further studies are required to explore the risk factors of bronchial asthma among children in different geographical regions.
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We played cards sometimes, my mother and I, during my childhood asthma attacks in the middle of the night. I would creep past the bathroom door and to my parents' bedroom door. Mom , I would whisper. Mom .
That's all I needed to say. She came to the living room, where I waited for her, and stayed up the rest of the night to watch me breathe.
Watching me breathe meant making decisions about whether to call the doctor in the middle of the night or take me into his office in the morning.
Sometimes I put my hands on my head, fingers clasped together because latching them and pressing down on my head created more energy to suck in the next breath. As I grew older, I avoided placing my hands on my head, afraid to tip my mother off about how bad the attack was.
For a long and harrowing attack, she woke my father to drive me out into the night air, which we thought helped with the breathing. We meandered through the neighborhoods bordering the hospitals, looping repeatedly down certain streets, our leisurely pace a sham, because really, he remained close to those hospital entrances in case my breathing worsened, propelling us both into the light and warmth of the busy Emergency Departments.
Sometimes watching me meant making honey, lemon and whiskey toddies, or, if we had no whiskey, just honey and lemon, so the hot liquid could break up the phlegm in my chest. But often, as I sipped on my honey and lemon, my mother rubbed my back and shoulders, which were always hunched down with the effort of breathing. Or pounded between my shoulder blades, another strategy to break up the phlegm.
If the breathing became easier, either on its own or because I'd had some of the medicine stockpiled in our cupboard, and the rattling and wheezing diminished, my mother would pull out the cards. She still needed to watch my progress; neither one of us could rest yet. We would play two-handed Euchre. Or double solitaire.
I don't know how my mother's level of anxiety fluctuated when she watched me breathe through the night, but she never smoked in the house during my asthma attacks. For intense attacks, after waking my father, she might take a break from watching me and go into the backyard with a cigarette to look at the sky. She never fretted in front of me. She remained calm and positive.
During my senior year of high school, after a stressful week of classes, a swine flu shot, and a complicated AP chemistry experiment, I suffered an asthma attack, the worst I'd had in years. My pediatrician instructed the hospital to admit me straight to a floor. Some bureaucratic glitch delayed the delivery of one of those injections I needed to open my airways and help me breathe. My mother, summoned from work, told me to keep going, just a bit longer. Later, I told her, "I think you kept me alive." She told me that she'd never been so worried. She'd thought for sure I was dying.
Years later, when she died, her own breathing remained silent until near the end. Small puffs of sound emerged from her lips, like the snore puffs she'd made on those nights I'd returned from college for a visit and lay awake with the hums and creaks of my childhood home. In the hospital, as she lay dying, her brain stem already dead, I couldn't encourage her as she exhaled her last puffs. I just listened.
"Living is about the breathing," I might have said to my mother on one of those nights I clambered through an attack. We both knew that. But sometimes it helped to hear things aloud.
This piece, originally in longer form , is part of an ongoing collaboration with Months to Years, a nonprofit quarterly publication that showcases nonfiction, poetry and art exploring mortality and terminal illness.
Dawn Newton, a writer in East Lansing, Michigan, was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer in November 2012 and has lived with asthma all her life. Her memoir, Winded: A Memoir in Four Stages, will be published in October by Apprentice House Press at Loyola University Maryland. Her blog is at www.dawnmarienewton.com .
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