Measures of Asthma Severity Recorded by Patients
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Asthma
- Vol. 25 (6) , 373-376
- https://doi.org/10.3109/02770908809071377
Abstract
Twenty-nine children with asthma made daily recordings of the severity of their asthma for 8 months. Each child recorded four measures of severity: a medication usage score, a morning peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR), an evening PEFR, and a subjective rating of overall severity. We determined the relationships between the four measures. Except for the morning and evening PEFRs, the relationships between the measures were weak; the PEFR measures were highly related to one another. The relationship between PEFR scores and medication usage scores increased following biofeedback relaxation training.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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