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The impact of asthma and associated factors on health-related quality of life in adult patients of asthma in the United States
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The impact of asthma and associated factors on health-related quality of life in adult patients of asthma in the United States
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Alharbi
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Raed Abdullah
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1986-
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Raed Abdullah Alharbi
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Frederick
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Srinivasan
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Shankar
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Shankar Srinivasan
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Rutgers University
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School of Health Professions
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2017
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Background: Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases that affect the airways in the lungs causing inflammation due to reacting to any infection or trigger that stimulate the asthma attack. Such a disease might be able to affect the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) including: activity limitations, physical health, and mental health of these adult patients in certain ways. Objectives: Since there is no clear research or study that gave an integrated comprehensive view of the impact of asthma along with different associated factors including: behavioral factors (smoking, frequency of smoking and quitting, exercise, health-routine checkup, and alcohol use), clinical factors (obesity, depressive disorder, diabetes, influenza and pneumonia vaccines), and socioeconomic factors (stress, healthcare coverage, income and education level) on HRQoL in adult patients in the United States, the overall goal of this research is designed to investigate this impact. Methodology: Data of this research is obtained from Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) 2014. Different statistical procedures and methods including: extracting data, descriptive analysis, inferential analysis, and predictive analysis would be preformed by using Statistical Analysis System Software (SAS) 9.4. Results: adult patients of asthma have activity limitations by 64.90%, physical health problems by 163.40%, and mental health problems by 163.53% more than adult healthy people. Smoking limits activity by 116.18% as well as increases physical and mental health problems by 19.12% and 40.41%. Also, other behavioral factors play great roles in HRQoL in adult patients of asthma. Obesity limits activity by 73.57% as well as increases physical and mental health problems by 41.50% and 17.20%. Also, other clinical factors play great roles in HRQoL in adult patients of asthma. Stress limits activity by 188.52% as well as increases physical and mental health problems by 90.17% and 157.20%. Also, other clinical factors play great roles in HRQoL in adult patients of asthma. Conclusion: Even if there are few associated factors that improve HRQoL in adult patients of asthma, the majority of these factors worsen HRQoL. Finally, it can be confirmed that these associated factors along with asthma can lead to poorer HRQoL in adult patients of asthma in the United States.
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Biomedical Informatics
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Asthmatics--United States
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Asthma
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1 online resource (xviii, 153 p. : ill.)
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by Raed Abdullah Alharbi
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ETD doctoral
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Abdullah
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2016-12-05 16:34:00
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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