TY - JOUR
T1 - Disparities in assessments of asthma control between children, parents, and physicians
AU - Shefer, Galit
AU - Donchin, Milka
AU - Manor, Orly
AU - Levy-Hevroni, Revital
AU - Schechter, Abraham
AU - Cohen, Rinat
AU - Cohen, Herman A.
AU - Kerem, Eitan
AU - Engelhard, Dan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
PY - 2014/10
Y1 - 2014/10
N2 - Objective: Assessment of asthma control in children by physicians, patients and their parents was compared, assuming parents may underestimate symptoms in asthmatic children and exploring whether physicians tend to agree with them.Design: Asthma control perception was assessed in 4-to 11-year-old asthmatic children and their parents, using C-ACT, during 2011-2012. Pediatric pulmonologists used GINA guidelines for their assessment; pediatricians, not having spirometry, used the information given in addition to physical examination. The C-ACT scores given by the children and their parents were further analyzed separately, and compared with their physicians' assessment. Statistical methods, which also measured possible influence of different variables, included kappa, Chi-square, linear-by-linear association, McNemar test and logistic regression. Patient Selection: The study comprised 354 parents and children aged 4-11 years with moderate-severe asthma; 129 (36.4%) were treated by 23 pediatricians; 225 (63.6%) by 11 pediatric pulmonologists.Conclusions: In addition to increasing awareness of parents to symptoms in their asthmatic children, physicians should question the child appropriately, aswell as using the children's responses to C-ACTas an information source for properly assessing asthma control.Results: The C-ACT was generally found valid in assessing asthma control (P<0.001; k 0.529; CI 0.441, 0.617) and showed that in 229/354 (53%) of children the asthma was uncontrolled. Nevertheless, of the 229 children who indicated their asthma was uncontrolled, 124 (54.1%) of their parents (k 0.245; CI 0.15, 0.34) and 96 (41.9%) of their physicians believed it to be controlled (k 0.331; 0.24, 0.43). Comparing the physician-child discordance vis-a -vis the parents, the significant difference was when 96/229 children (41.9%) and 34/126 parents (27.0%) indicated the asthma was uncontrolled while the physician determined it controlled (OR 1.95; 1.19, 3.24). There were no significant differences between pediatric pulmonologists and pediatricians.
AB - Objective: Assessment of asthma control in children by physicians, patients and their parents was compared, assuming parents may underestimate symptoms in asthmatic children and exploring whether physicians tend to agree with them.Design: Asthma control perception was assessed in 4-to 11-year-old asthmatic children and their parents, using C-ACT, during 2011-2012. Pediatric pulmonologists used GINA guidelines for their assessment; pediatricians, not having spirometry, used the information given in addition to physical examination. The C-ACT scores given by the children and their parents were further analyzed separately, and compared with their physicians' assessment. Statistical methods, which also measured possible influence of different variables, included kappa, Chi-square, linear-by-linear association, McNemar test and logistic regression. Patient Selection: The study comprised 354 parents and children aged 4-11 years with moderate-severe asthma; 129 (36.4%) were treated by 23 pediatricians; 225 (63.6%) by 11 pediatric pulmonologists.Conclusions: In addition to increasing awareness of parents to symptoms in their asthmatic children, physicians should question the child appropriately, aswell as using the children's responses to C-ACTas an information source for properly assessing asthma control.Results: The C-ACT was generally found valid in assessing asthma control (P<0.001; k 0.529; CI 0.441, 0.617) and showed that in 229/354 (53%) of children the asthma was uncontrolled. Nevertheless, of the 229 children who indicated their asthma was uncontrolled, 124 (54.1%) of their parents (k 0.245; CI 0.15, 0.34) and 96 (41.9%) of their physicians believed it to be controlled (k 0.331; 0.24, 0.43). Comparing the physician-child discordance vis-a -vis the parents, the significant difference was when 96/229 children (41.9%) and 34/126 parents (27.0%) indicated the asthma was uncontrolled while the physician determined it controlled (OR 1.95; 1.19, 3.24). There were no significant differences between pediatric pulmonologists and pediatricians.
KW - Asthma
KW - Asthma control
KW - Children
KW - Discordance
KW - Parent-child agreement
KW - Pediatric pulmonologist
KW - Pediatrician
KW - Physician-child agreement
KW - The childhood asthma control test (C-ACT)
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U2 - 10.1002/ppul.22924
DO - 10.1002/ppul.22924
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C2 - 24166798
AN - SCOPUS:84908176728
SN - 8755-6863
VL - 49
SP - 943
EP - 951
JO - Pediatric Pulmonology
JF - Pediatric Pulmonology
IS - 10
ER -
