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alt="" title="Open Access"> </span> IMPACT OF ASTHMA ON SCHOOL ABSENTEEISM AMONG RURAL MALAWIAN CHILDREN AGED 6-8: A COMPARATIVE STUDY </h3> <div class="d-flex justify-content-between flex-wrap flex-md-nowrap"> <div class="mb-4 mb-md-0"> <p class="font-weight-bold"> PUBLISHED October 25, 2024 (DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.54985/peeref.2410p8129509" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.54985/peeref.2410p8129509</a>) </p> <div class="bg-info text-white px-3 d-inline-block"> <small>NOT PEER REVIEWED</small> </div> </div> </div> <hr> <dl> <dt> <h4>Authors</h4> </dt> <dd> <div class="mb-3"> Bushra Sumra<sup>1</sup> , Soomro Abdul Qadir<sup>2</sup> </div> <div class="mb-3"> <ol class="pl-4"> <li>Harvard posgraduate education</li> <li>Phizeta Traders</li> </ol> </div> </dd> </dl> <dl> <dt> <h4>Conference / event</h4> </dt> <dd> Harvard Medical School- FCR E-poster presentation, May 2024 (Virtual) </dd> </dl> <dl> <dt> <h4>Poster summary</h4> </dt> <dd>This is an E-poster that explains how a chronic respiratory diseases, like asthma that is prevelent in school going children impacts their learning,by increased absenteeism. The study was conducted on a dataset of rural Chickawawa, Malawian Children aged between 6-8years, with no disparities in gender. It explains what qualifies as diagnostic asthma, and on average how many days a child with asthma is absent versus their peers who are non-asthmatic. 804 participants were used to make this assessment and logistic regression analysis was used to assess the correlation,</dd> </dl> <dl> <dt> <h4>Keywords</h4> </dt> <dd>Asthma, Chronic respiartory, Children, Malawian, Absenteeism, Education</dd> </dl> <dl> <dt> <h4>Research areas</h4> </dt> <dd>Education, Immunology, Medicine, Biological Sciences</dd> </dl> <dl> <dt> <h4>References</h4> </dt> <dd> <ol class="pl-4"> <li>Rylance, Sarah (2020), “Child Lung Health Study”, Mendeley Data, V1, doi: 10.17632/gc4knh2rt5.1</li> <li>Mortimer, K., Ndamala, C.B., Naunje et al., 2017. A cleaner burning biomass-fuelled cookstove intervention to prevent pneumonia in children under 5 years old in rural Malawi(the cooking and pneumonia study). The Lancet, 389(10065). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)32507-7</li> <li>Rylance, S., Nightingale, R., Naunje, A., Mbalume, F., Jewell, C., Balmes, J.R., Grigg, J. & Mortimer, K., 2019. Lung health and exposure to air pollution in Malawian children (CAPS): a cross-sectional study. Thorax, 74(11). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2018-212945</li> </ol> </dd> </dl> <dl> <dt> <h4>Funding</h4> </dt> <dd> <span class="text-muted">No data provided</span> </dd> </dl> <dl> <dt> <h4>Supplemental files</h4> </dt> <dd> <ol class="pl-4"> <li> Abstract <a href="https://www.peeref.com/storage/uploads/posters/support/UtDIt4qgMFrfWmb9.pdf" download rel="nofollow">Download</a> </li> </ol> </dd> </dl> <dl> <dt data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#collapseAdditional" style="cursor: pointer;"> <h4> Additional information <i class="ivu-icon ivu-icon-md-arrow-dropdown"></i> </h4> </dt> <dd class="collapse" id="collapseAdditional"> <dl> <dt>Competing interests</dt> <dd class="text-secondary"> No competing interests were disclosed. </dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Data availability statement</dt> <dd class="text-secondary"> The datasets generated during and / or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. </dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Creative Commons license</dt> <dd class="text-secondary"> Copyright © 2024 Sumra et al. 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