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- Title
Externalizing and internalizing behavioural problems related to asthma in school children.
- Authors
Annesi‐Maesano, I.; Zhou, C.; Baïz, N.; Banerjee, S.; André Charpin, D.; Caillaud, D.; Blay, F.; Raherison, C.; Lavaud, F.
- Abstract
We investigated the relationships of behavioural problems as assessed using the standardized Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire ( SDQ) to asthma in view of improving asthma management. Six thousand eight hundred and eighty children (mean age 10.4 years, male: 49%) were recruited in the French 6 Cities Study. Children with abnormal or borderline emotional symptoms (internalizing problems) or conduct problems (externalizing problems) were more asthmatic than others ( P < 0.01). Compared to being normal, abnormal emotional symptoms or conduct problems were found to be related to mild-to-moderate persistent asthma ( logistic model adjusted odds ratio = 1.55 (95% CI = 1.26-1.90) and 1.42 (95% CI = 1.17-1.71), respectively) and to early-onset asthma ( Cox's model Adjusted Hazard Risk = 1.60 (95% CI = 1.27-2.01) and 1.34 (95% CI = 1.05-1.70). Borderline conduct problems were found to be negatively related to parents' knowledge on how to prevent asthma attacks, compared to normal conduct problems [adjusted OR = 0.51 (95% CI = 0.31-0.85)]. Further data are needed to better understand the involvement of behavioural problems in childhood asthma according to phenotypes.
- Subjects
SCHOOL children; ASTHMA in children; QUESTIONNAIRES; EMOTIONS; ASTHMATICS; BEHAVIOR disorders in children; COMPARATIVE studies; JUVENILE diseases
- Publication
Allergy, 2013, Vol 68, Issue 11, p1471
- ISSN
0105-4538
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/all.12241