title: [Results and problems of a questionnaire study on the incidence of some selected bronchopulmonary diseases in 3,302 students beginning school in the city of Frankfurt/Main].
abstract: During the last years between air pollution and respiratory illness has been suggested increasingly often. There are no exact data about prevalence and longitudinal development of bronchopulmonary diseases. This study will propose a method to get these data by questionnaire. Although a relatively simple questionnaire was selected it was soon apparent that the answers of German parents differed substantially from those of parents of other nationalities. It was felt that this difference could be due to anxiety or misunderstanding on part of the parents, so in the interest of accuracy only the data concerning the German children were analysed. Analysis of 2,214 questionnaires revealed the following tendencies in the 5 to 6 year old age group: infectious diseases 30.4%, asthma 1.4% croup syndrome 4.5%, recurrent croup 4.1%. There is a very high percentage of pupils suffering from recurrent croup because this kind of croup most probably is associated with air pollution. We believe that the extension of data collection in this age group is practicable and would produce useful data to establish a correlation between air pollution and bronchopulmonary diseases.
mesh_terms: D001249:Asthma / Q000453:epidemiology; D001982:Bronchial Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D001991:Bronchitis / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003440:Croup / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D005860:Germany, West; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
vernacular_title: Ergebnisse und Problematik einer Fragebogenerhebung zur Inzidenz einiger ausgewählter bronchopulmonaler Erkrankungen bei 3302 Einschülern der Stadt Frankfurt/Main.