Publications by authors named "S Nazario"
Asthma morbidity measures across Black ethnic subgroups.
J Allergy Clin Immunol
February 2024
Article Synopsis
- Black adults experience higher rates of asthma but are often studied as a uniform group, ignoring cultural differences among subgroups.
- The study aimed to assess asthma-related health outcomes across various Black ethnic subgroups by comparing multiethnic Black (ME/B) and African American (AA/B) participants.
- Results showed that ME/B participants had more emergency room visits and higher use of systemic corticosteroids for asthma than AA/B participants, particularly among Puerto Rican Black Latinx individuals.
Objective: Influenza affects 5-15% of the worldwide population and is responsible for 4-5 million cases and 250,000-500,000 deaths. Despite established recommendations, vaccination rates continue to be low. Our study aimed to identify barriers to influenza immunization and attitudes toward the vaccine among respiratory health care (HC) professionals in Puerto Rico.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Disaster medicine is a growing field within the specialty of emergency medicine, but educational training typically focuses on hospital drills or other educational strategies, such as didactics, simulation, or tabletop exercises. With the success of gamification in other medical education applications, we sought to investigate if a novel gamified curricular innovation would lead to improved test performance and confidence in the ability to manage a real mass casualty incident (MCI).
Methods: This was a prospective observational study of medical students and emergency medicine residents who participated in a 4-h simulation-based competition consisting of 4 unique stations.
Preference for and impact of telehealth vs in-person asthma visits among Black and Latinx adults.
Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol
November 2023
Background: Black and Latinx adults experience disproportionate asthma-related morbidity and limited specialty care access. The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pandemic expanded telehealth use.
Objective: To evaluate visit type (telehealth [TH] vs in-person [IP]) preferences and the impact of visit type on asthma outcomes among Black and Latinx adults with moderate-to-severe asthma.