title: General and Disease-specific Scales in Children with Asthma and their Parents.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate and compare the efficiency of general and disease-specific life quality scales in children with asthma.
  
  
  METHODS
  Children with asthma, and their parents completed the Childhood Asthma Control Test (C-ACT), Pediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (PAQLQ), Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL), and also underwent spirometry.
  
  
  RESULTS
  82 children (55 males) with a median (IQR) age of 10.1 (8.9-10.5) years were included. C-ACT, PAQLQ and PedsQL child scores were significantly higher in children with controlled asthma.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Quality of life in children, assessed using disease- specific quality of life measures, is better for children with good asthma control.
authors.affiliation: Departments of *Family Medicine, #Adult Allergy and Immunology, $Pediatric Allergy, GATA Military School of Medicine; and @Turkish Military Academy, Primary Care Examination Center, Department of Family Medicine; Ankara, Turkey. Correspondence to: Dr. Oktay Sari, Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, GATA Military School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. osari@gata.edu.tr.
authors.forename: Oktay
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Sari
authors.forename: Umit
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Aydogan
authors.forename: Mustafa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gulec
authors.forename: Yusuf Cetin
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Doganer
authors.forename: Suleyman Tolga
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Yavuz
mesh_terms: D001249:Asthma / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D011788:Quality of Life; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology