The parenting attitudes and the stress of mothers predict the asthmatic severity of their children: a prospective study

Table 2 The association between non-psychosocial factors of asthmatic children and their disease severity in the subsequent year

Factor	Univariate regression		Multiple regression
	β	P	β	P
Patient age at baseline	-.182	.007	-.111	.07
No. of factors reported to cause deterioration	.186	.005	.022	.73
No. of comorbid allergic conditions	.171	.010	.117	.07
JSPACI medication score	.229	<.001	.108	.09
Serum Ig E level	.321	<.001	.181	.039
Disease severity at baseline	.420	<.001	.353	<.001
Working mother vs. housewife	.159	.018	.090	.13

β: standardized partial correlation coefficient. JSPACI: Japanese Society of Pediatric Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

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