Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on children with asthma in Jordan: a parental questionnaire.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the impact of a 10-week lockdown on children with asthma aged 4-17 years in terms of presentations to the emergency department (ED), frequency of admissions, compliance with medications and changes in pulmonary function testing results.

Design and setting

A questionnaire-based cross-sectional study using Google Forms to collect parents' and caregivers' responses after they consented to participation.

Results

A total of 374 parents/caregivers were contacted and 297 (79%) responded. The majority of the children were male (188 or 63%) and 49.8% were aged 7-12 years. More than half of the participants (194 or 65%) reported improved compliance with medications and spacer use. There was a significant reduction in the number of presentations to the ED f

SUBMITTER: Al-Iede M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8228568 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature