Quality of Life Determinants in Children and Adolescents with Mild to Moderate Asthma in Tunisia.

Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing
Maha DardouriManel Mallouli

Abstract

Chronic childhood asthma is a leading cause of poor quality of life. Factors associated with this major asthma outcome were controversial. The aim of this study is to assess the quality of life of children and adolescents with mild to moderate asthma and to determine the factors associated with quality of life impairment in this population. This was a descriptive study carried out in the pediatric outpatient clinic of a University Hospital in the center of Tunisia over a period of 3 months (April-June 2018). Participants were children with mild to moderate asthma aged 7 to 17 years. The Pediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire was used to assess quality of life. Binary logistic regression was performed to identify predictors of asthma-related quality of life. A total of 90 children participated in the study. Almost 68% of children were aged 7 to 11, and nearly 32% were adolescents. The mean of PAQLQ total score was 4.7 ± 1.2. The final logistic regression model demonstrated that asthma symptoms control had the greatest impact on quality of life, followed by acute health care use in the past 12 months (p = .007; p = .01, respectively). The child gender and the parent's quality of life were also associated with the child's ...Continue Reading

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