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JACI Highlights - January 2007
Chen et al – Developing measures of symptom perception for children with asthma
In the January 2007 issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Chen and colleagues discuss the development of child-appropriate asthma symptom perception measures that could be used to help children and parents monitor and more optimally manage exacerbations of asthma. Understanding how patients perceive symptoms is an important component of asthma management. The authors found that their symptom perception measures reliably correlated with pulmonary function in a sample of children with asthma ranging in age from 5 to 15. Because asthma management is often based on families’ abilities to detect and respond to symptoms, child-appropriate symptom perception measures are important for efforts to optimize families’ implementation of asthma action plans.
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