Parental questionnaires provided reliable data on childhood asthma compared with national registers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Much of our knowledge of childhood asthma comes from questionnaire-based studies. Our main aim was to assess the agreement between parental-reported data at 12 years of age and data from two national Swedish registers.

Methods

Data were obtained from the prospective, longitudinal, population-based Children of Western Sweden cohort, which focused on children born in 2003. The parents answered questionnaires at six months and one, four, eight and 12 years of age. Personal identity numbers linked 3634 children to the Swedish Prescribed Drug Register (SPDR) and the National Patient Register (NPR).

Results

At 12 years of age, there was substantial overall agreement between the asthma medication reported by the parents in the questionnaire and the SPDR for any as

SUBMITTER: Stromberg Celind F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8359177 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature