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SAMPLE, DESIGN, & INTERVENTIONStudy design: Cross sectional and matched case-controlstudy for a sub sample????O’Neil (1985) Sample: N = 4,036 students aged 5 to 15 years-old (102children diagnosed with asthma, 139 with chronicbronchitis, and 45 with both (total=286)).Study design: Cross-sectionalAsthma Measures: 21- items survey based on aquestionnaire related to asthma and chronic bronchitis byConnecticut Lung AssociationPadur (1995) Sample: N = 100 children, aged 8 to 16 yrs, (mean =11.5 yrs, SD =2.5), 52 girls and 48 boys. 75 Caucasian,13 African-American, 12 other.25 children with asthma; 25 children with cancer, 25with diabetes and 25 healthy children served as controlgroups. Time since chronic disease diagnosis was 6months or more.ACHIEVEMENTMEASUREIowa Tests ofEducationalDevelopment (ITED)for grades 9 through 12.Academic subject areastested were: reading,mathematics, andcomposite achievementscore.School records onchildren’ schoolperformance.Child BehaviorChecklist (CBCL) forbehavior problems andsocial competence.Child DepressionInventory – 27 itemquestionnaire self-OUTCOMESolely 4.8 % of 255 children had low scores in at least one achievementarea.Achievement scores (composite scores on ITED or ITBS) were correlatedwith parental education, (correl.coef. 0.27 and p

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