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- * A study analyzed data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being to identify factors linked to chronic conditions among foster children who had been in care for one year.
- * Key factors associated with chronic conditions included being under 2 years old, having a caregiver of a non-Hispanic race/ethnicity, and living in households with fewer members.
Article Abstract
The population of children in foster care is rapidly growing. Previous local and state-level analyses have measured the prevalence of chronic conditions among such children to be from 44%-82%. The study objective was to identify factors associated with chronic conditions among a nationally representative sample of children in foster care for one year. The authors analyzed data from The National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW), Wave 1, the first national dataset of children in the child welfare system. In regression analysis, factors significantly associated with having a chronic condition included: child age under 2 years, caregiver race/ethnicity other than Hispanic, and relatively few household members. Discussion includes consideration of chronic conditions in this high-risk population.
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