Quality of Life in Children with Asthma versus Healthy Children

Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences
Samaneh KouzegaranFatemeh Behmanesh

Abstract

Asthma is the most prevalent chronic disease in the pediatric age group. The disease affects different aspects of the children's lives, such as physical, emotional, social and educational aspects. Thus, more focus has been on the quality of life in these patients rather than the duration of their illness in recent years. This study examined the different aspects of quality of life in asthmatic children for the first time in this geographic area. The study was cross-sectional conducted in 2015-2016. The asthmatic group was 100 patients aged 8 to 12 admitted to the Asthma and Allergy Clinic of Ghaem Hospital (as) in Mashhad with the control group composed of 100 healthy children of the same age and gender. The standard questionnaire pedsQLTM was used for comparing the quality of life of children in the two groups. Statistical analysis was SPSS23 with P-value less than 0.05, which was statistically significant. In each group, 58 patients were boys, and 42 were girls. In a comparison of the quality of life of children, the asthma group with a mean total score of Peds QL 20.99 ± 12.54 compared to the healthy children with a mean total score of Peds QL of 8.8 ± 5.41 had a lower quality of life (P < 0.001). Moreover, regarding various...Continue Reading

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Feb 6, 2020·International Journal of Nursing Practice·Guozhen GaoJinying Li
Sep 19, 2020·The Journal of Asthma : Official Journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma·Seema AgrawalCarol Kochhar-Bryant
Sep 15, 2020·The Journal for Nurse Practitioners : JNP·Constance L Wall-Haas
Sep 11, 2021·The Journal of Asthma : Official Journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma·Sehra Birgül BatmazEsma Akpınar Aslan

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