KMID : 0607720150260020160
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Journal of Korean Community Nursing 2015 Volume.26 No. 2 p.160 ~ p.168
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A Cross-sectional Epidemiological Study on Trends in the Prevalence of Allergic Diseases among Children and Adolescents in the Jeju Area in 2008 and 2013
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Lee Hye-Sook
Hong Seong-Chul Kim Jeong-Hong Kim Jae-Wang Lee Keun-Hwa Lee Jae-Chun
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was to find epidemiological trends in the prevalence of allergic diseases among children and adolescents in Jeju Province, Korea.
Methods: Two questionnaire surveys of the same method were conducted, respectively, in 2008 and in 2013 with five years¡¯ interval with 1,296 participants in 2008 and 878 in 2013 who were elementary and secondary students sampled at random from the same five schools. ¡®International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC)¡¯ was applied to the parents with their written consent to the survey.
Results: The results of analysis showed an increasing trend in the prevalence of lifetime asthma (8.6% in 2008 and 10.4% in 2013) and in the prevalence of lifetime allergic rhinitis (25.3% in 2008 and 31.1% in 2013) (p=.003), and a decreasing trend in the prevalence of lifetime atopic dermatitis (32.0% in 2008 and 26.8% in 2013) (p=.011).
Conclusion: This research showed an increasing trend in the prevalence of asthma and allergic rhinitis among children and adolescents in Jeju Province compared to that 5 years ago, but represented a declining trend in the prevalence of atopic dermatitis.
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KEYWORD
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Prevalence, Asthma, Allergic rhinitis, Atopic dermatitis, Students
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