Asthma-Related Knowledge and Practices among Mothers of Asthmatic Children: A Latent Class Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Mothers' knowledge about childhood asthma influences management practices and disease control, but validating knowledge/practice questionnaires is difficult due to the lack of a gold standard. We hypothesized that Latent Class Analysis (LCA) could help identify underlying mother profiles with similar knowledge/practices. A total of 438 mothers of asthmatic children answered a knowledge/practice questionnaire. Using answers to the knowledge/practice questionnaire as manifest variables, LCA identified two classes: Class 1, "poor knowledge" (33%); Class 2, "good knowledge" (67%). Classification accuracy was 0.96. Mothers in Class 2 were more likely to be aware of asthma-worsening factors and indicators of attacks. Mothers in Class 1 were more likely to prevent exposure to tobacco smoke (91.1%

SUBMITTER: Fasola S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8909612 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature