Table 2.

Barriers to Appropriate Pharmacologic Treatment for Medicaid Asthmatic Children^a

	Strongly agree/agree		Neutral		Disagree/strongly disagree
Barriers	N	%	N	%	N	%
Limited capitation to cover asthma medications	350	86.2	23	5.7	33	8.1
Inadequate health insurance coverage	342	83.0	34	8.3	36	8.7
Lack of financial incentives	245	61.1	92	22.9	64	16.0
Lack of educational materials or resources	283	69.5	74	18.2	50	12.3
Lack of extra personnel to assist in asthma education	320	77.7	59	14.3	33	8.0
Poor compliance with medical advice	332	80.0	56	13.5	27	6.5
Poor asthma management knowledge of the patient	324	78.4	49	11.9	40	9.7
Poor attendance to follow-up visits	307	75.4	52	12.8	48	11.8
Fear of side effects of asthma medicines	186	45.6	107	26.2	115	28.2

^aEntries in table are based on cases with complete data only; therefore, the sample size for each constraint varies slightly because of missing data.