Communication in the family of the asthmatic child

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Abstract
A study was presented on the communication (pattern and efficiency) of parents having an asthmatic child in a standardized communication situation in which a communication conflict was induced. Parents of children with severe chronic heart disease were used as control couples. The parents having asthmatic children were a heterogeneous group with respect to communication efficiency. Of the couples, 2/3 showed a communication as efficient as that of the control couples, whereas 1/3 demonstrated an extremely inefficient communication in that they failed totally to cope with the experimentally induced communication conflict. The literature was reviewed.