Effects of Symptom Perception Interventions on Trigger Identification and Quality of Life in Children with Asthma
Table 2
Self-reported asthma outcomes and associations with asthma trigger identification.
Variable
Enrollment
Home monitoring
Discrimination training
Association with trigger identification at enrollment
Change
Mean
SD
Mean
SD
Mean
SD
Estimate
SE
Estimate
SE
Self-reported asthma difficulty
Severe
2.59
1.21
2.33
1.20
2.28
1.24
9.69
<0.001
0.11
0.02
<0.001
0.07
0.02
<0.001
Managed
2.71
1.07
2.37
1.11
2.20
1.04
22.99
<0.001
0.04
0.02
0.037
0.05
0.02
0.006
Troublesome
2.85
1.16
2.67
1.06
2.50
1.03
12.20
<0.001
0.10
0.02
<0.001
0.05
0.02
0.002
Depend on symptoms
6.41
2.70
5.26
2.88
5.69
3.02
13.87
<0.001
0.09
0.05
0.077
0.12
0.05
0.022
Able to predict an attack (, %)
109
48%
111
50%
131
58%
4.62
0.01
0.082
0.05
0.079
−0.01
0.04
0.795
Asthma-related quality of life
Symptoms
4.90
1.51
5.03
1.44
4.25
0.04
−0.14
0.03
<0.001
−0.16
0.03
<0.001
Activities
5.81
1.37
6.04
1.27
7.57
0.006
−0.15
0.03
<0.001
−0.14
0.02
<0.001
Emotions
5.29
1.53
5.57
1.49
11.58
0.001
−0.12
0.03
0.001
−0.08
0.03
0.004
Environment
4.78
1.74
5.02
1.65
8.72
0.003
−0.22
0.04
<0.001
−0.19
0.03
<0.001
Overall
5.19
1.30
5.40
1.21
12.93
<0.001
−0.15
0.03
<0.001
−0.14
0.02
<0.001
Asthma difficulty was rated from mild (‘‘1’’) to severe (‘‘5’’), from very well managed (‘‘1’’) to not managed at all (‘‘5’’), and from hardly noticeable (‘‘1’’) to very troublesome (‘‘5’’). SD = standard deviation; = -test; = probability; SE = standard error.
