Harver Andrew, Humphries C Thomas, Kotses Harry
Department of Public Health Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28223-0001, USA.
J Asthma. 2009 Nov;46(9):940-3. doi: 10.3109/02770900903274475.
We administered a 65-item survey to patients to assess preference of symptoms and peak flow to detect worsening asthma and to collect information about asthma triggers, asthma knowledge sources, and barriers to peak flow meter use. It was completed by 139 asthma patients. Survey responses were comparable for adult and pediatric patients and for those who owned peak flow meters and those who did not. But patients who owned a peak flow meter reported more severe asthma than others. On average, the patients preferred symptoms to peak flow for assessing worsening asthma. It is likely that the preference for symptom over peak flow monitoring was effort related: Patients preferred symptom monitoring because it was the easier of the two to conduct.
我们对患者进行了一项包含65个项目的调查，以评估症状和呼气峰流速在检测哮喘恶化方面的偏好，并收集有关哮喘触发因素、哮喘知识来源以及使用呼气峰流速仪的障碍等信息。139名哮喘患者完成了该调查。成人和儿童患者之间，以及拥有和未拥有呼气峰流速仪的患者之间，调查结果具有可比性。但拥有呼气峰流速仪的患者报告的哮喘病情比其他人更严重。平均而言，患者在评估哮喘恶化时更倾向于症状而非呼气峰流速。症状监测比呼气峰流速监测更受青睐可能与所需努力有关：患者更喜欢症状监测，因为在两者中它更容易实施。
