J Korean Pediatr Soc.  1997 Dec;40(12):1725-1730.

The Psychological Recognition of Asthmatic Children from Parents'Views

• Kim NH
• Seol EI
• Jeon GH
• Lee GH
• Cho MG
• Son C

Abstract

PURPOSE
Many studies showed that the asthmatic children mostly have psychosocial problem such as depression or anxiety. The object of this study is to help the asthmatic children and their family by knowing what is their mothers' biggest concern about their asthmatic children.
METHODS
We made up a questionnaire with asked the mothers by telephone. If they though asthma had a certain effect on their asthmatic children's activity, depression, anxiety, positiveness, scholastic achievement, friendship, pleasure, concentration, anger, growth and development. We asked the mothers whose children had visited the pediatric department in st. colomban's hospital from 1990 to 1996 and had been diagnosed and treated as asthma, and whose asthmatic children were between 7 and 21.
RESULTS
More than half of the mothers who got a phone-call said that their children had problems in house life, school life, social life due to asthma and frequent asthmatic attack made their children less concentrated, inactive, less scholastic achieved, but there were few who said that asthma seemed to have an effect on their children's friendship, depression, pleasure.
CONCLUSIONS
In the psychological aspect, the mothers may concern more if their children cannot keep up with the competitive social tendency closely related to concentration and scholastic achievement than if their children have some emotional disorder or behavial disorder such as depression and anxiety

Keyword

Asthma; Mother; Psychosocial; Depression; Anxiety

MeSH Terms

Anger
Anxiety
Asthma
Child*
Depression
Friends
Growth and Development
Humans
Mothers
Pleasure
Surveys and Questionnaires
Telephone