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[Family dysfunction and paediatric patients with asthma]

Jaime Eduardo Guzmán-Pantoja¹, Eduardo Reyes Barajas-Mendoza, Elba Graciela Luce-González

¹Medicina Familiar, Curso de Especialización en Medicina Familiar, Departamento de Educación e Investigación en Salud, Unidad de Medicina Familiar 51, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS), Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. dreduardoguzman@yahoo.com

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|December 6, 2008

Abstract

Objective:

To determine family function of pediatric patients with asthma.

Design:

Cross-sectional study.

Setting:

Family medicine clinic number 51, Mexican Institute of Social Security, Primary Care, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.

Participants:

Fifty families were studied; 25 of which had a pediatric patient previously diagnosed with asthma, and a control group of 25 with pediatric patients without asthma.

Methods:

From September 2006 to February 2007 family function was evaluated using family APGAR and associations were estimated using odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI).

Results:

Family dysfunction was more often present in families with asthmatic patients compared to those without; OR=3.7 (95% CI, 1.1-13). Severe dysfunction is markedly higher in families with asthmatic members.

Conclusions:

Family dysfunction is more frequent in families with asthmatic children; family functionality should be seen as an important part of the integral approach in those families.

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