Changing Trends in School Absenteeism and Identification of Associated Factors in Adolescents with Atopic Dermatitis
Dong Wan Kang, Sung Hoon Kim, Yechan Kyung, Hae Jeong Lee · 2023
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Dong Wan Kang and co-authors published a 2023 study on school absence among Korean teenagers with atopic dermatitis, a chronic itchy skin condition. The condition is known to keep students home. The team wanted to know how absence trends changed over time and which students miss the most school.
They used a national youth health survey run yearly from 2007 to 2015, covering nearly 142,000 students. Over that span, the share of teens reporting the skin condition rose from about seventeen to twenty-four percent. Yet absence blamed on the condition fell, from about seven percent to under three. Students who missed school were more often boys and middle schoolers. Poor sleep satisfaction and depression stood out as the strongest linked factors. The authors urge doctors to screen for these issues. Better mental health support, they argue, could keep more students in class.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Dong Wan Kang, Sung Hoon Kim, Yechan Kyung, Hae Jeong Lee |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 25 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |