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Original Article

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1989;32(5):670-677. Published online May 31, 1989.

Psychosocial Screening of Childhood Asthmatic Parient by PSC(Pediatric Symptom Checklist).

Hye Hyun Kim¹, Keun Lee¹

¹Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

Received: September 12, 1988;  Accepted: November 21, 1988.

Abstract

It has been accepted that psychosocial difficuties are frequently associated with asthma of childhood, as etiologic factor and/or consequence of the disease. Management of these psychosocial problems has great impact on the course of asthma and early finding of the problems has been strongly advocated. The purpose of this study was to evaluate psychosocial functioning of asthmatic patients and compare them with other groups of children. The resuts were follows; 1) Mean PSC scores of each group were: asthma 17.0±7.6(Mean±SD), chronic disease 20.0±9.6, acute disease 16.6±8.7 normal control 17.3±8.0. There were significant differences between normal control and chronic disease and between asthma and chronic disease (p
Keywords :Psychosocial screening Asthma.