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A Questionnaire Survey on the Prevalence and Parents’ Perceptions of Respiratory Allergies in a 3- to 16-Year-Old Population in Wuhan, China

(1) Background: The prevalence of allergic rhinitis (AR) and asthma has increased rapidly in China. However, perceptions of respiratory allergies and barriers to their management have not attracted enough attention. (2) Objective: To investigate the prevalence of, parents’ perceptions of and their u...

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Autores principales: Guo, Shuyan, Wang, Yin, Chen, Hao, Huang, Nan, Li, Wenjing, Ma, Dongxia, Yang, Yaqi, Zhang, Shuchen, Zhu, Rongfei
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9409729/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36013103
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11164864
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author Guo, Shuyan
Wang, Yin
Chen, Hao
Huang, Nan
Li, Wenjing
Ma, Dongxia
Yang, Yaqi
Zhang, Shuchen
Zhu, Rongfei
author_facet Guo, Shuyan
Wang, Yin
Chen, Hao
Huang, Nan
Li, Wenjing
Ma, Dongxia
Yang, Yaqi
Zhang, Shuchen
Zhu, Rongfei
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description (1) Background: The prevalence of allergic rhinitis (AR) and asthma has increased rapidly in China. However, perceptions of respiratory allergies and barriers to their management have not attracted enough attention. (2) Objective: To investigate the prevalence of, parents’ perceptions of and their unmet needs for information concerning respiratory allergies in a 3- to 16-year-old children population. (3) Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted from June to July 2021 in three schools in Wuhan, China. A total of 1963 participants were recruited through cluster sampling for their parents to complete an online questionnaire regarding respiratory allergic symptoms. The diagnosis of respiratory allergies was based on self-reported symptoms and face-to-face physician evaluation. All the participants with respiratory allergies were asked to complete the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (B-IPQ), the Asthma Knowledge Questionnaire (AKQ) and a questionnaire regarding their unmet needs for disease management. (4) Results: The prevalence of respiratory allergies was 29.3% (576/1963) in the 3- to 16-year-old population, among whom AR accounted for 25.7%; asthma, 1.8% and AR-complicated asthma (AR&Asthma), 1.9%. The total B-IPQ score was 40.2 ± 10.9 in the participants with respiratory allergies, and there were no differences among the AR, asthma and AR&Asthma groups (all p > 0.05). The B-IPQ score correlated significantly with symptom onset time and a history of atopic dermatitis (p < 0.01). Nearly one fifth, 18.9%, of the participants with respiratory allergies never went to hospital for treatment, but those with higher B-IPQ scores were more likely to seek professional treatment (p < 0.001). The accuracy rates of AKQ were 72.5% in the participants with asthma and 76.7% in those without asthma (p = 0.147). Among the 576 participants with respiratory allergies, 568 (98.6%) had tried to obtain disease-management information from online platforms, and 55.5% (315/568) were dissatisfied with current platforms; the reasons included incomprehensive contents of illness (45.7%), lack of voice from leading experts (40.3%), too many advertisements (37.5%) and similar contents on different platforms (36.8%). (5) Conclusions: The prevalence of respiratory allergies is high in the 3- to 16-years old population in Wuhan, China. Yet the parents’ perceptions of respiratory allergies and knowledge of asthma are insufficient. It is crucial to increase parents’ awareness of the illness and facilitate their access to truly informative and professional platforms.
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spelling pubmed-94097292022-08-26 A Questionnaire Survey on the Prevalence and Parents’ Perceptions of Respiratory Allergies in a 3- to 16-Year-Old Population in Wuhan, China Guo, Shuyan Wang, Yin Chen, Hao Huang, Nan Li, Wenjing Ma, Dongxia Yang, Yaqi Zhang, Shuchen Zhu, Rongfei J Clin Med Article (1) Background: The prevalence of allergic rhinitis (AR) and asthma has increased rapidly in China. However, perceptions of respiratory allergies and barriers to their management have not attracted enough attention. (2) Objective: To investigate the prevalence of, parents’ perceptions of and their unmet needs for information concerning respiratory allergies in a 3- to 16-year-old children population. (3) Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted from June to July 2021 in three schools in Wuhan, China. A total of 1963 participants were recruited through cluster sampling for their parents to complete an online questionnaire regarding respiratory allergic symptoms. The diagnosis of respiratory allergies was based on self-reported symptoms and face-to-face physician evaluation. All the participants with respiratory allergies were asked to complete the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (B-IPQ), the Asthma Knowledge Questionnaire (AKQ) and a questionnaire regarding their unmet needs for disease management. (4) Results: The prevalence of respiratory allergies was 29.3% (576/1963) in the 3- to 16-year-old population, among whom AR accounted for 25.7%; asthma, 1.8% and AR-complicated asthma (AR&Asthma), 1.9%. The total B-IPQ score was 40.2 ± 10.9 in the participants with respiratory allergies, and there were no differences among the AR, asthma and AR&Asthma groups (all p > 0.05). The B-IPQ score correlated significantly with symptom onset time and a history of atopic dermatitis (p < 0.01). Nearly one fifth, 18.9%, of the participants with respiratory allergies never went to hospital for treatment, but those with higher B-IPQ scores were more likely to seek professional treatment (p < 0.001). The accuracy rates of AKQ were 72.5% in the participants with asthma and 76.7% in those without asthma (p = 0.147). Among the 576 participants with respiratory allergies, 568 (98.6%) had tried to obtain disease-management information from online platforms, and 55.5% (315/568) were dissatisfied with current platforms; the reasons included incomprehensive contents of illness (45.7%), lack of voice from leading experts (40.3%), too many advertisements (37.5%) and similar contents on different platforms (36.8%). (5) Conclusions: The prevalence of respiratory allergies is high in the 3- to 16-years old population in Wuhan, China. Yet the parents’ perceptions of respiratory allergies and knowledge of asthma are insufficient. It is crucial to increase parents’ awareness of the illness and facilitate their access to truly informative and professional platforms. MDPI 2022-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9409729/ /pubmed/36013103 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11164864 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Yang, Yaqi
Zhang, Shuchen
Zhu, Rongfei
A Questionnaire Survey on the Prevalence and Parents’ Perceptions of Respiratory Allergies in a 3- to 16-Year-Old Population in Wuhan, China
title A Questionnaire Survey on the Prevalence and Parents’ Perceptions of Respiratory Allergies in a 3- to 16-Year-Old Population in Wuhan, China
title_full A Questionnaire Survey on the Prevalence and Parents’ Perceptions of Respiratory Allergies in a 3- to 16-Year-Old Population in Wuhan, China
title_fullStr A Questionnaire Survey on the Prevalence and Parents’ Perceptions of Respiratory Allergies in a 3- to 16-Year-Old Population in Wuhan, China
title_full_unstemmed A Questionnaire Survey on the Prevalence and Parents’ Perceptions of Respiratory Allergies in a 3- to 16-Year-Old Population in Wuhan, China
title_short A Questionnaire Survey on the Prevalence and Parents’ Perceptions of Respiratory Allergies in a 3- to 16-Year-Old Population in Wuhan, China
title_sort questionnaire survey on the prevalence and parents’ perceptions of respiratory allergies in a 3- to 16-year-old population in wuhan, china
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9409729/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36013103
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11164864
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