Maternal psychological distress mediates the relationship between asthma and physician visits in a population-based sample of adolescents

OBJECTIVE: This study examined whether maternal psychological distress mediates the relationship between presence of adolescent asthma and number of physician visits and whether the association between maternal psychological distress and physician visits is moderated by adolescent general health. METHODS: Data were obtained from the Mater University Study of Pregnancy and included 4025 adolescents. Path analysis was used to examine mediating …