Study highlights lack of gold standard for measuring asthma control in pediatric patients Nature_NPJ asthma childrenshealth pediatric goldstandard healthcare
By Neha MathurJul 14 2023Reviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLM In a recent article published in the npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine Journal, researchers systematically reviewed studies comparing questionnaires assessing asthma control measures in children in primary care.
Even suboptimal or uncontrolled asthma in children could hamper health-related quality of life . Thus, it is crucial to assess asthma control measures for insights into disease burden so that clinicians devise the best treatment strategy for pediatric asthma patients. About the study In the present study, researchers measured and compared the psychometric features of various asthma control questionnaires used in primary care based on six prespecified criteria, as follows:iii) asthma symptoms evaluated by these questionnaires
Two independent reviewers used the COSMIN quality criteria to assess the methodological quality of health status questionnaires. Subsequently, they scored the questionnaires on several parameters, e.g., content validity, consistency, interpretability, and reproducibility, to name a few. Based on this trial's evaluation criteria, the asthma APGAR system emerged as a promising tool to determine asthma control in children in primary care as it showed good agreement with C-ACT but did not depend on spirometry results for completion.
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