Elnady Hala G, Sherif Lobna S, ElGindi Hala D, Shaaban Fatma A, Abdelmohsen Aida M, Salah Dina A, Abdel-Latif Ghada A, Fahmy Reham F
Child Health Department, Medical Research Division, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt.
Community Medicine Department, Medical Research Division, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt.
Indian J Community Med. 2020 Oct-Dec;45(4):410-414. doi: 10.4103/ijcm.IJCM_436_19. Epub 2020 Oct 28.
Asthma as a serious public health problem worldwide exerts a serious load on children's health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and their families.
We assess the HRQOL of the primary caregivers of Egyptian asthmatic children and adolescents and its relation to HRQOL of their children and asthma severity.
A cross-sectional study was conducted on 128 pairs of asthmatic children (7-16 years) and their primary caregivers. Pediatric asthma quality of life (QOL) questionnaire, pediatric asthma caregiver's QOL questionnaire, and asthma control questionnaire were used.
Uncontrolled asthmatic patients had statistically significantly lower mean caregiver score compared to controlled asthmatic ( < 0.005). There was a statistically significant positive correlation between caregiver's individual and overall QOL scores and their children (individual and overall QOL scores) ( < 0.05). A statistically significant negative correlation between asthma severity and QOL scores of the caregivers of asthmatic children and adolescents was found ( < 0.05).
The QOL of the primary caregivers of asthmatic children is significantly adversely affected by their children's illness severity.
哮喘作为一个全球性的严重公共卫生问题,对儿童的健康相关生活质量(HRQOL)及其家庭造成了沉重负担。
我们评估埃及哮喘儿童和青少年的主要照顾者的HRQOL及其与他们孩子的HRQOL和哮喘严重程度的关系。
对128对哮喘儿童(7至16岁)及其主要照顾者进行了一项横断面研究。使用了儿童哮喘生活质量(QOL)问卷、儿童哮喘照顾者QOL问卷和哮喘控制问卷。
与病情得到控制的哮喘患者相比,病情未得到控制的哮喘患者的照顾者平均得分在统计学上显著更低(<0.005)。照顾者的个人和总体QOL得分与他们孩子的(个人和总体QOL得分)之间存在统计学上显著的正相关(<0.05)。发现哮喘严重程度与哮喘儿童和青少年照顾者的QOL得分之间存在统计学上显著的负相关(<0.05)。
哮喘儿童主要照顾者的QOL受到其孩子疾病严重程度的显著不利影响。