Pediatric Asthma Caregiver’s Quality of Life Questionnaire is a useful tool for monitoring asthma in children

Background: Bronchial Asthma is one of the important chronic disease in children. This disease can affect the children mentally and physically in various aspects. Health related quality of life (HRQoL) has become an increasing important issue in the management of Asthma and it is how often used to evaluate the effectiveness of antiasthma drugs. The objectives of the study are to assess the health-related quality of life in Pediatric patients by using Pediatric Asthma quality of life questionnaire and also to assess the impact of parent education in health-related quality life of Asthma patient. The other intention of the study is to determine the anti-asthma drugs utilisation pattern in Pediatric patients.Methods: This study was conducted in in-patient and out-patient department of tertiary care Hospital for a period of 1 year. 145 pediatric patients were participated in this study. A comparative study was conducted to describe the HRQoL in asthma and the pediatric asthma quality of life questionnaire is used to determine the HRQoL of the subjects. Statistical analysis was performed using the instant prism ANOVA test and the Bartlett’s test. P <0.05 was considered statistically significant.Results: This study shows that asthma is more common in male compared to female and most common type was Mild Persistent (47.85). Most of the patient are treated with bronchodilator (71%) followed by steroid (49%) and Leukotrien Antagonist (30.43%). Also revealed that most of the patients are taking multiple drug therapy compared to mono therapy. Quality of life having significant difference in all domains by comparing first visits score. Those suffering from the intermittent type of asthma showed higher mean quality of life score in all domains by comparing first visit score vs second visit score vs third visit score.Conclusions: The health-related quality of life having improvement in all domain and overall quality of life by comparing the initial visit to the follow up visits. The patient education plays major role in improving the quality of life of pediatric population and the quality of life score having relationship with gender, age educational status, severity of asthma and the drug utilization improving health related quality of life.

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Pediatric asthma quality of life questionnaire (PAQLQ): Validation among asthmatic children in Thailand

Pediatric Allergy and Immunology ◽

10.1111/j.1399-3038.2005.00349.x ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

pp. 051220035135011 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Orapan Poachanukoon ◽

Nualanong Visitsunthorn ◽

Watcharee Leurmarnkul ◽

Pakit Vichyanond

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Pediatric Asthma ◽

Life Questionnaire ◽

Asthmatic Children ◽

Quality Of Life Questionnaire

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APLICABILIDADE DE UM QUESTIONÁRIO GENÉRICO DE AVALIAÇÃO DE QUALIDADE DE VIDA PARA CRIANÇAS ASMÁTICAS

Revista Paulista de Pediatria ◽

10.1590/1984-0462/;2018;36;2;00006 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 207-213

Author(s):

Ana Aline Marcelino da Silva ◽

Álvaro Campos Cavalcanti Maciel ◽

Priscilla Rique Furtado ◽

Renata Ramos Tomaz ◽

Thalita Medeiros Fernandes de Macêdo ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Quality Of Life ◽

Pediatric Asthma ◽

Life Questionnaire ◽

Quality Of Life Questionnaire ◽

Quality Of Life Inventory ◽

The Social ◽

Pedsql 4.0 ◽

Life Inventory

RESUMO Objetivo: Avaliar se o instrumento genérico Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL 4.0) é aplicável à avaliação da qualidade de vida relacionada à saúde (QVRS) de crianças asmáticas, quando comparado ao instrumento específico Pediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (PAQLQ). Métodos: Foram avaliadas 30 crianças com idade entre sete e onze anos de idade e diagnóstico de asma havia, pelo menos, seis meses. Ambos os questionários foram respondidos no mesmo dia, por meio de entrevista. Os dados foram analisados com o auxílio do Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), versão 20.0, atribuindo-se o nível de significância de 5%. Resultados: Não ocorreram diferenças significativas na qualidade de vida das crianças avaliadas de acordo os sexos. As crianças asmáticas classificadas como praticantes e não praticantes de atividade física obtiveram escores significativamente diferentes no domínio relacionado à saúde física (PedsQL 4.0). Crianças com diferentes níveis de gravidade e controle da asma apresentaram diferenças significativas nos escores obtidos em dois dos três domínios avaliados por meio do PAQLQ. Ao serem avaliadas com o instrumento PedsQL 4.0, nenhuma diferença significativa foi observada na qualidade de vida das crianças com diferentes níveis de controle e gravidade da asma. As medidas de qualidade de vida de crianças asmáticas obtidas pelos instrumentos PedsQL 4.0 e PAQLQ apresentaram correlação moderada e significativa (r=0,415, p=0,02). Conclusões: O instrumento PedsQL 4.0 diferenciou as crianças com diferentes níveis de atividade física. No entanto, ele não foi sensível para diferenciar a qualidade de vida relacionada à saúde em crianças com diferentes níveis de gravidade e controle da asma.

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