Waqas Sami
Department of Community Medicine & Public Health, College of Medicine, Majmaah University, 11952, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaPublications
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Research
Assessing the Quality of Life in Pediatric Asthma Patients and Their Caregiver at Qassim Region, Saudi Arabia
Author(s): Abdullah Saleh Al-Nafeesah, Aisha Thwayb Almutairi, Abdullah Mohammed AlOlayan, Shouq Mohammed Al-Baqmi*, Razan Ghazi Almehmadi, Abeer Sulaiman Aldakhil, Abdullah Ali Alsuhaibani, Saleh Abdullah Alharbi, Ibrahim Abdullah Aljabr, Omar Abdullah Alhasson and Waqas Sami
Due to the pathophysiology of asthma, it interrupts with the daily activities of the patients and affect the patients psychologically. Studies show that affected children with asthma and their parents have an altered quality of life, while such studies are not done in Qassim region. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried among pediatric asthma patients and their caregivers. The participants are the asthmatic children at the age of 5 to 15 who visited the Respiratory Clinics and Emergency with their caregiver from January to March 2020. A sample size of 251 asthmatic children with caregivers was used. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used in the analysis. Results: There was a significant relationship between the caregiver gender and emotional disturbance (p=0.008) and activity limitation (p=0.000). There was no relation between the presence of another child with a.. Read More»