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1 Institute for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, and 3 Dr. von Haunersches Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, 2 Dept of Epidemiology, University of Ulm, Ulm, and 4 University Children's Hospital, Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany, 5 Dept of Medicine, McGill University Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada.
CORRESPONDENCE: K. Radon, Unit for Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology & Net Teaching, Institute for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Ziemssenstr. 1, D-80336 Munich, Germany. Fax: 49 8951604954. E-mail: Katja.Radon{at}med.uni-muenchen.de
Keywords: Adolescents, allergy, asthma, cohort study, vocational education
Received: August 10, 2005
Accepted December 21, 2005
Existing guidelines advise adolescents with asthma and allergies against high-risk occupations. The aim of the current authors' analyses was to investigate the resulting self-selection in a prospective cohort study.
The participants of Phase II of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood in Germany (aged 9–11 yrs at baseline) were re-contacted after 7 yrs (response rate was 77%) and were asked to complete a questionnaire, which included items on atopic diseases. The subjects were also asked about the type of job they would like to have in the future (preferred job choice). Exposure to agents with potential asthma risk was evaluated using a job exposure matrix. The analyses were restricted to those in school-based vocational training programmes without occupational exposures.
A total of 33% of subjects chose jobs with high asthma risk, 23% selected low asthma risk jobs and the remaining adolescents indicated jobs without known asthma risk (reference category). There were no statistically significant associations between asthma, allergic rhinitis or atopic dermatitis and selecting jobs with asthma risk. Participants with allergic rhinitis tended to select high risk jobs less frequently.
In conclusion, self-selection into low risk jobs seems to play a minor role in teenagers with asthma or allergies.
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