535 Correlation between Quality of Life and Treatment Adherence in Childhood Asthma

BACKGROUND: Asthma is a chronic disease that around 3 million people suffer from in the world, it is more common the most of them during childhood. METHODS: Determinate correlation between quality of life (QL) and treatment adherence (TA) on childhood asthma, in pediatric patients between 3 to 17 years old with diagnosis of bronchial asthma. Transverse, retrospective and correlational study, they were evaluated 59 young patients with confirmed diagnosis of bronchial asthma, in a period of 2 months (between May to June, 2011), they were evaluated by 2 tests, the Tucson Children's Assessment of Sleep Apnea (Tu CASA) which was modified to QL in children with asthma and the Morisky Green Levine test was modified and validated to asthma disease and TA, the variables were about LQ: snore, mouth-breathing, drowsiness, behavior and academic performance, and about treatment adherence: if the patients forgive to take their medicine , schedule for taking correctly medication, suspension because the patient feels good or bad (in this case attributed to the drugs), knowledge of effects of medication, if the pediatric patients need help, and who help them. Miscalculation of 5 percent and reliability of 95%, Pearson`s correlation coefficient to evaluate LQ and AT based on test score. RESULTS: It was found good LQ in 46 children (77.9%) and 13 patients with regular LQ (22%), about TA was good in 32 patients (54.3%) and regular to bad TA in 27 children (45.8%), Pearson's correlation coefficient was 0.4, and it was evaluated with Student's t, and it's statistically meaningful, P = 0.05. CONCLUSIONS: LQ and TA are connected significantly, because it's a part of the complete treatment to control asthma, following closed treatment showed be an important aspect, because there are patients with good life quality and following partially treatment.