A novel Spanish/English scale for m...

A novel Spanish/English scale for measuring asthma symptoms in children of Latino fall has been developed, tested, and fix reliable, according to a Feb 29 2000 pres release from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Parents of 234 inner-city children treated for asthma in an pass department tested the symptom scale either during the child's initial visit or single in kind month later.

Approximately 69% of children were identified as Latino. Parents answered eight questions, written in English and Spanish, indicating the commonness of their children's symptoms in succession a scale ranging from "every day" to "never" Symptoms listed were coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, asthma attacks, and chest pain. Parents also indicated to what extent often their children awoke at night because of asthma during the past four weeks and rated the severity of their children's asthma.

Between 1980 and 1994 asthma among children five to 14 years of age in the United States increased 74% and this is the principally common chronic illness affecting children of Latino fall according to the release. scarcely any reliable methods exist, however, to measure the severity and common occurrence of asthma symptoms in non-English-speaking and low-literacy populations.

Reliable way Developed for Measuring Asthma Symptoms in Latino Children (pres release, Rockville, Md: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Feb 29 2000) 1

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