a Department of Paediatric Clinical Psychology , Royal Hospital for Sick Children, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde , Glasgow , Scotland.
b Department of Clinical and Health Psychology , School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh , Edinburgh , Scotland.
Cogn Emot. 2016 Aug;30(5):953-67. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2015.1036842. Epub 2015 May 12.
This study investigated attentional biases in children with asthma. The study aimed at testing whether children with asthma are vigilant to asthma and/or anxiety cues. Thirty-six children (18 with asthma and 18 healthy controls) aged 9-12 completed a computerised dot probe task designed to measure attentional bias to three different categories of words: asthma, anxiety symptom and general negative emotion. Main caregiver anxiety was also assessed, as was frequency of inhaler use for those with asthma. Children with asthma showed an attentional bias towards asthma words but not anxiety or general negative emotion words. Children without asthma showed no significant attentional biases to any word categories. Caregiver anxiety was correlated with asthma word attentional bias in the asthma group. The findings indicate that attentional bias is present in children with asthma. Further research is required to ascertain if this exacerbates or maintains health-related problems.
这项研究调查了哮喘儿童的注意力偏差。研究旨在测试哮喘儿童是否对哮喘和/或焦虑线索保持警惕。36 名 9-12 岁的儿童（18 名哮喘儿童和 18 名健康对照组）完成了一项计算机化的点探测任务，旨在测量对三个不同类别单词的注意力偏差：哮喘、焦虑症状和一般负面情绪。还评估了主要照顾者的焦虑程度，以及哮喘儿童使用吸入器的频率。哮喘儿童对哮喘单词表现出注意力偏向，但对焦虑或一般负面情绪单词没有表现出明显的注意力偏向。没有哮喘的儿童对任何单词类别都没有表现出明显的注意力偏向。照顾者的焦虑与哮喘组中对哮喘单词的注意力偏向相关。研究结果表明，哮喘儿童存在注意力偏差。需要进一步研究以确定这种注意力偏差是否会加剧或维持与健康相关的问题。
