. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 1.

Published in final edited form as: Fam Syst Health. 2016 Sep;34(3):229–239. doi: 10.1037/fsh0000206

Table 3.

Differences in ED Use and Proportion of Days with Asthma Symptoms by Demographic Variables

		ED Use^§ Percentage with no visits	Χ²(ϕ_c)	Proportion of Asthma Symptoms^§§ M (SD)	F (ω²_p)
Entire Sample		45.7		.13 (.17)
Poverty Threshold:	Above (n=32)	20.8	5.43^* (.22)	.14 (.19) (n=31)	.15 (.01)
Below (n=77)		36.2	5.43^* (.22)	.12 (.17) (n=83)	.15 (.01)
Ethnicity:	Latino (n=56)	30.8	5.65 (.22)	.13(.19)	.09 (.01)
African American (n=31)		13.1		.12 (.12)
Non-Latino White (n=22)		13.1		.13 (.18)
Nativity:	US Born (n=57)	32.3	.93 (.09)	.13(.14) (n=60)	.05(.01)
Foreign Born (n= 52)		24.6	.93 (.09)	.12 (.20) (n=54)	.05(.01)
Caregiver Language: English(n=82)		43.1	.29 (.05)	.12 (.15) (n= 83)	.07(.01)
Spanish (n=27)		13.8	.29 (.05)	.13 (.24) (n=31)	.07(.01)

Note.

^§

For ED use n=109.

^§§

For asthma symptoms n= 114, with Latino (n=60), AA (n=34), NLW (n=20).

p <.05;

^**

p<.01;

^***

p<.001