Table 3

Exposure to violence for caregivers of asthmatic children in three public housing developments in Boston


Franklin Hill
West Broadway
Washington Beech
Total
p-value (Wilcoxon rank-sum test)

% afraid of violence in neighborhood
63%
(N = 30)
20%
(N = 20)
43%
(N = 7)
46%
(N = 57)
0.01
% directly impacted by violence in neighborhood
41%
(N = 32)
14%
(N = 22)
0%
(N = 7)
26%
(N = 59)
0.02
% not let children play outside due to violence in neighborhood
60%
(N = 30)
23%
(N = 20)
14%
(N = 7)
41%
(N = 59)
0.009

Levy et al. Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source 2004 3:13   doi:10.1186/1476-069X-3-13