Table 2.

Expectations of Child’s Asthma Function by Race/Ethnicity

Characteristic	All, n (%)	Black, n (%)	Latino, n (%)	White, n (%)	P	Relative Risk (95% Confidence Interval) Compared With White
						Black	Latino
N	739	177	156	320	–	–	–
Agreed to the following statements:
“I believe my child can be symptom free most of the time”*	623 (87)	149 (87)	117 (79)	284 (91)	.0003†	0.69 (0.41, 1.16)	0.43 (0.27, 0.69)
“I expect asthma will not affect school/daycare attendance”*	443 (63)	104 (62)	74 (51)	214 (69)	.0007†	0.80 (0.62, 1.03)	0.63 (0.50, 0.79)
“I expect child can fully participate in gym”*	621 (86)	154 (89)	122 (81)	271 (87)	.01†	1.12 (0.68, 1.85)	0.67 (0.43, 1.04)
“I expect child will have no ER visits or hospitalizations from asthma”*	371 (55)	78 (48)	67 (47)	177 (61)	.01†	0.75 (0.61, 0.92)	0.74 (0.59, 0.91)
Overall expectation score					<.01†‡	0.97 (0.87, 1.09)	0.76 (0.59, 0.99)
Low expectations (4–7)	465 (67)	109 (66)	114 (80)	191 (63)		–	–
High expectations (8–16)	227 (33)	57 (34)	29 (20)	112 (37)		–	–
Good control is __ days/week of symptoms§					.0004†	0.70 (0.37, 1.31)	0.38 (0.22, 0.65)
0–2 days	621 (90)	148 (90)	122 (82)	273 (93)		–	–
>2 days	66 (10)	16 (10)	27 (18)	20 (7)		–	–
Rating of child’s asthma control in the last 14 days§					<.0001†	0.42 (0.26, 0.69)	0.35 (0.21, 0.57)
Excellent/Very Good/Good	625 (86)	144 (82)	120 (78)	288 (92)		–	–
Fair/Poor/Very Poor	102 (14)	32 (18)	34 (22)	24 (8)		–	–

^*These 4 questions were summed to form the overall expectation score.

^†P values calculated with variables as continuous variables.

^‡Controlled for age, gender, household income, parental education, health insurance, English fluency, and Children’s Health Survey for Asthma score.

^§Questions created as part of our study.