Influence of parental anxiety and beliefs about medicines on feeding and exercise in children living with asthma.

ABSTRACT: This study's primary objective was to establish differences in beliefs about medicines, levels of asthma-related anxiety and diet and exercise behaviours between parents of children with well controlled and poorly controlled asthma. Secondary objectives were to explore how asthma control might shape relationships between parental cognitions and parenting practices concerning paediatric asthma. Parents of children with asthma aged 10-16 years (N = 310) completed standardised questionnaires measuring beliefs about medicines, parental asthma-related anxiety, parenting attitudes towards child activity, parental feeding and asthma control. Parents of children with poorly controlled asthma reported significantly greater asthma medication necessity and concern, asthma-related anxiety, cont

SUBMITTER: Clarke R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11607838 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature