Impact of asthma on educational attainment in a socioeconomically deprived population: a study linking health, education and social care datasets.
<h4>Background</h4>Asthma has the potential to adversely affect children's school examination performance, and hence longer term life chances. Asthma morbidity is especially high amongst UK ethnic minority children and those experiencing social adversity, populations which also have...
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| author | Pat Sturdy Stephen Bremner Gill Harper Les Mayhew Sandra Eldridge John Eversley Aziz Sheikh Susan Hunter Kambiz Boomla Gene Feder Keith Prescott Chris Griffiths |
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| description | <h4>Background</h4>Asthma has the potential to adversely affect children's school examination performance, and hence longer term life chances. Asthma morbidity is especially high amongst UK ethnic minority children and those experiencing social adversity, populations which also have poor educational outcomes. We tested the hypothesis that asthma adversely affects performance in national school examinations in a large cohort from an area of ethnic diversity and social deprivation.<h4>Methods and findings</h4>With a novel method (using patient and address-matching algorithms) we linked administrative and clinical data for 2002-2005 for children in east London aged 5-14 years to contemporaneous education and social care datasets. We modelled children's performance in school examinations in relation to socio-demographic and clinical variables. The dataset captured examination performance for 12,136 children who sat at least one national examination at Key Stages 1-3. For illustration, estimates are presented as percentage changes in Key Stage 2 results. Having asthma was associated with a 1.1% increase in examination scores (95%CI 0.4 to 1.7)%,p = 0.02. Worse scores were associated with Bangladeshi ethnicity -1.3%(-2.5 to -0.1)%,p = 0.03; special educational need -14.6%(-15.7 to -13.5)%,p = 0.02; mental health problems -2.5%(-4.1 to -0.9)%,p = 0.003, and social adversity: living in a smoking household -1.2(-1.7 to -0.6)%,p<0.001; living in social housing -0.8%(-1.3 to -0.2)% p = 0.01, and entitlement to free school meals -0.8%(-1.5 to -0.1)%,p<0.001.<h4>Conclusions</h4>Social adversity and ethnicity, but not asthma, are associated with poorer performance in national school examinations. Policies to improve educational attainment in socially deprived areas should focus on these factors. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-900d2514dfca49618d8f41e3e3a0fb4c2022-12-21T22:42:05ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032012-01-01711e4397710.1371/journal.pone.0043977Impact of asthma on educational attainment in a socioeconomically deprived population: a study linking health, education and social care datasets.Pat SturdyStephen BremnerGill HarperLes MayhewSandra EldridgeJohn EversleyAziz SheikhSusan HunterKambiz BoomlaGene FederKeith PrescottChris Griffiths<h4>Background</h4>Asthma has the potential to adversely affect children's school examination performance, and hence longer term life chances. Asthma morbidity is especially high amongst UK ethnic minority children and those experiencing social adversity, populations which also have poor educational outcomes. We tested the hypothesis that asthma adversely affects performance in national school examinations in a large cohort from an area of ethnic diversity and social deprivation.<h4>Methods and findings</h4>With a novel method (using patient and address-matching algorithms) we linked administrative and clinical data for 2002-2005 for children in east London aged 5-14 years to contemporaneous education and social care datasets. We modelled children's performance in school examinations in relation to socio-demographic and clinical variables. The dataset captured examination performance for 12,136 children who sat at least one national examination at Key Stages 1-3. For illustration, estimates are presented as percentage changes in Key Stage 2 results. Having asthma was associated with a 1.1% increase in examination scores (95%CI 0.4 to 1.7)%,p = 0.02. Worse scores were associated with Bangladeshi ethnicity -1.3%(-2.5 to -0.1)%,p = 0.03; special educational need -14.6%(-15.7 to -13.5)%,p = 0.02; mental health problems -2.5%(-4.1 to -0.9)%,p = 0.003, and social adversity: living in a smoking household -1.2(-1.7 to -0.6)%,p<0.001; living in social housing -0.8%(-1.3 to -0.2)% p = 0.01, and entitlement to free school meals -0.8%(-1.5 to -0.1)%,p<0.001.<h4>Conclusions</h4>Social adversity and ethnicity, but not asthma, are associated with poorer performance in national school examinations. Policies to improve educational attainment in socially deprived areas should focus on these factors.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23155367/?tool=EBI |
| spellingShingle | Pat Sturdy Stephen Bremner Gill Harper Les Mayhew Sandra Eldridge John Eversley Aziz Sheikh Susan Hunter Kambiz Boomla Gene Feder Keith Prescott Chris Griffiths Impact of asthma on educational attainment in a socioeconomically deprived population: a study linking health, education and social care datasets. PLoS ONE |
| title | Impact of asthma on educational attainment in a socioeconomically deprived population: a study linking health, education and social care datasets. |
| title_full | Impact of asthma on educational attainment in a socioeconomically deprived population: a study linking health, education and social care datasets. |
| title_fullStr | Impact of asthma on educational attainment in a socioeconomically deprived population: a study linking health, education and social care datasets. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impact of asthma on educational attainment in a socioeconomically deprived population: a study linking health, education and social care datasets. |
| title_short | Impact of asthma on educational attainment in a socioeconomically deprived population: a study linking health, education and social care datasets. |
| title_sort | impact of asthma on educational attainment in a socioeconomically deprived population a study linking health education and social care datasets |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23155367/?tool=EBI |
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