Physician-patient communication regarding asthma and work

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• Personal Author:
  Mazurek JM ; Storey, Eileen
• Description:
  BACKGROUND: Healthy People 2020-specific respiratory diseases objectives seek to increase the proportion of people with current asthma who receive appropriate asthma care. For adults, this includes a discussion of whether asthma is work-related. PURPOSE: To establish a baseline measure of physician-patient communication regarding asthma and work. METHODS: This study used data from 27,157 non-institutionalized U.S. adult respondents of the 2010 National Health Interview Survey (analyzed in 2011). Adults employed at any time in the 12 months prior to the interview with a health-professional diagnosis of current asthma who have been told by a health professional that their asthma was probably work-related or ever discussed the relatedness of asthma and work were identified. Weighted proportions and, using logistic regression analysis, prevalence ORs for factors that may have predicted communication with a health professional regarding an asthma-work relationship were calculated. RESULTS: An estimated 6.6% (95% CI=5.1%, 8.2%) of employed adults with current asthma have been told that their asthma is work-related. Among those not so informed, 7.4% (95% CI=5.6%, 9.2%) ever discussed the topic. When responses to both questions were considered, the proportion was 13.5% (95% CI=11.3%, 15.8%). Employed adults aged >/=30 years, those reporting adverse asthma outcomes, and those of Hispanic ethnicity had higher odds of having communication with a health professional about the relation between their asthma and their work. CONCLUSIONS: One in seven employed adults with asthma report communicating with their health professional about the role of workplace exposures in their asthma. Opportunities to increase this dialogue should be examined. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Asthma Asthma, Occupational Delivery Of Health Care Diagnosis Environmental Exposure Health Personnel Lung Diseases Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Bronchial-asthma Clinical-diagnosis Clinical-symptoms Employee-exposure Employee-health Health-care Health-care-personnel Health-surveys Industrial-exposures Lung-disorders Medical-care Medical-personnel Medical-treatment Occupational-exposure Physicians Pulmonary-system-disorders Respiratory-system-disorders Surveillance Work-environment Worker-health

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• ISSN:
  0749-3797
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  72-75
• Volume:
  43
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20041035
• Citation:
  Am J Prev Med 2012 Jul; 43(1):72-75
• Contact Point Address:
  Jacek M. Mazurek, MD, Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, CDC, Mailstop HG 900.2, 1095 Willowdale Rd., Morgantown WV 26505
• Email:
  JMazurek1@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Preventive Medicine
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1c3ba1d623fd1ef3a5898f1daa54b3381304067f486f35dfd34938b887f07898dbb060c7b2e6dd237a9f0bd406419062cab72dc3977076b3bdafbb46e50dc7e2
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/193703/cdc_193703_DS1.pdf
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