Department of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA.
J Pediatr Psychol. 2010 Sep;35(8):870-82. doi: 10.1093/jpepsy/jsp121. Epub 2009 Dec 21.
Using structural equation modeling, test a conceptual model of associations between constructs predicting parent and child asthma quality of life.
Children with a confirmed asthma diagnosis and their parents completed measures of health status and independently reported on psychological functioning, family functioning, and quality of life.
Measurement and structural models for predicting parent and child quality of life provided a good fit of data to the conceptual model. Parent and child independent reports of quality of life are dependent upon family functioning and child psychological functioning. Long-term asthma symptom control is the only health status variable that impacts quality of life.
With minor modifications, both parent and child data fit the conceptual model. Child psychological functioning and long-term asthma control jointly contribute to quality of life outcomes. Findings suggest that both acute and long-term asthma health status outcomes have different determinants.
运用结构方程模型，检验预测父母和儿童哮喘生活质量的结构之间关联的概念模型。
确诊哮喘的儿童及其父母完成健康状况的测量，并分别报告心理功能、家庭功能和生活质量。
预测父母和儿童生活质量的测量和结构模型为概念模型与数据的良好拟合提供了依据。父母和儿童对生活质量的独立报告依赖于家庭功能和儿童的心理功能。长期哮喘症状控制是唯一影响生活质量的健康状况变量。
经微小修正，父母和儿童的数据均符合概念模型。儿童的心理功能和长期哮喘控制共同促成生活质量的结果。研究结果表明，急性和长期哮喘健康状况的结果有不同的决定因素。
