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Volume 12 Issue 2 ( April- June) 2023

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Quality Of life In Children with Bronchial Asthma
Dr.Ankush Kumar Patidar, Dr. Preeti Budania, Dr. Karan Loyal, Dr. Madhu Mathur

Aim: To evaluate the quality of life in children with bronchial asthma.Material & Methods: This was a cross sectional hospital based study conducted in the Department of Paediatrics, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur among 100 patients of Bronchial asthma with age group of Children in the age group of 2-18 years between March 2021 to July 2022. Grades of severity of asthma at initial diagnosis were categorized into intermittent, mild persistent, moderate persistent and severe persistent on the basis of day time and night time symptoms. The PAQLQ (S) has been developed to measure the functional (physical, emotional, occupational and social) problems that are most troublesome to children of 2-18 years with asthma. Data was collected and subjected to statistical analysis. Results: Maximum subjects were having moderate asthma (57%). The mean PAQLQ score was least in normal BMI subjects i.e., 3.87±0.70, followed by underweight subjects (4.03±0.71) and maximum was in 4.23±0.79. The mean PAQLQ score in subjects with mild asthma was 3.86±0.73, in moderate asthma subjects it was 4.12±0.65 and in patients with severe asthma it was 4.43±0.74. According to Pearson correlation analysis, there was a statistically significant positive correlation between duration of asthma and PAQLQ score (r= 0.42, p<0.01).Conclusion: The severity of the individuals' asthma and their BMI have an impact on their quality of life, thus appropriate steps should be done to reduce their BMI and to treat their asthma. The PAQLQ score and the duration of asthma have a positive statistically significant correlation, which leads to the conclusion that the quality of life of subjects is negatively impacted as the duration of asthma increases. As a result, steps should be taken to treat the disease effectively and promptly.

 
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