{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["19(5)"],"submitter":["Fasola S"],"pubmed_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%"],"journal":["International journal of environmental research and public health"],"pagination":["2539"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8909612"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Asthma-Related Knowledge and Practices among Mothers of Asthmatic Children: A Latent Class Analysis."],"pmcid":["PMC8909612"],"pubmed_authors":["Licari A","Fasola S","La Grutta S","Cilluffo G","Malizia V","Montalbano L","Ferrante G"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Asthma-Related Knowledge and Practices among Mothers of Asthmatic Children: A Latent Class Analysis.","description":"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%","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Feb","modification":"2025-04-18T12:09:45.028Z","creation":"2025-04-06T21:50:56.592Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8909612","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35270232"],"doi":["10.3390/ijerph19052539"]}}