Personalised Outcomes in Children With Recurrent Wheeze

Launched by IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST · Feb 27, 2019

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ClinConnect Summary

The validation of the tool will take place at St Mary's Hospital.

The questionnaire aims to measure

1. incidence of wheeze attacks and use of rescue medications
2. parental/caregiver perception of recurrent wheeze control
3. parental/caregiver perception of effect of recurrent wheeze on family/child quality of life

Participants will be given the questionnaire at the emergency departments or outpatients clinics following having consented to the study and will be asked to fill in the questionnaire and return it to their clinician.

Gender

ALL

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • In this study caregivers of preschool children presenting with the second or more episode of wheeze that requires physician review with or without treatment (as per BTS definition of wheeze attack in preschool years) will be included.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • This study will exclude caregivers who do not consent to complete the questionnaire and therefore participate in the study.
• • This study will exclude caregivers of preschool children who present with their first episode of wheeze.
• • This study will exclude caregivers of preschool children who present with respiratory distress of any other etiology (foreign body inhalation, croup, lower respiratory tract infection, bronchiectasis, exacerbation of cystic fibrosis or ciliopathy)