Publications by authors named "I Casares-Alonso"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to evaluate how feasible respiratory oscillometry (RO) is for asthma diagnosis in schoolchildren and its agreement with spirometry results.
- Both tests were conducted on 154 children aged 6 to 14, assessing factors like test validity, execution time, and difficulty.
- While RO needed fewer attempts and less time than spirometry, their results showed low concordance, raising questions about RO's reliability as a standalone diagnostic tool.
Background: Social and family factors may influence the probability of achieving asthma control in children. Parents' quality of life has been insufficiently explored as a predictive factor linked to the probability of achieving disease control in asthmatic children.
Objective: Determine whether the parents' quality of life predicts medium-term asthma control in children.
Introduction And Objectives: Asthma is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases with effective treatment in paediatrics. The aim of this study is to describe the paediatric prescribing of anti-asthmatics in Castilla-León, analyzing its geographic variability and temporal evolution.
Material And Methods: An analysis was made of prescriptions dispensed in pharmacies of R03 therapeutic subgroup (anti-asthmatic agents), and the active ingredients mepyramine and ketotifen, prescribed in children less than 14 years of age in the Castilla-León health service from 2005 to 2010 in Primary Care.
Background: Parents'/caregivers' quality of life is an important aspect to consider when handling paediatric asthma, but there is a paucity of valid and reliable instruments to measure it. The Family Impact of Childhood Bronchial Asthma (IFABI-R) is a recently developed questionnaire to facilitate the assessment of asthma-related parents'/caregivers' quality of life. This study researches the psychometric properties of IFABI-R.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnti-asthmatic prescription variability in children according to age.
Allergol Immunopathol (Madr)
April 2016
Introduction: There is little research in the Spanish paediatric population about the consumption of anti-asthmatic agents. The aim of this study was to describe the current pattern of anti-asthmatic drug prescription in the paediatric population from a region of Spain, using the prescribed daily dose as a unit of measurement.
Methods: We analysed the requirements of R03 therapeutic subgroup (anti-asthmatic agents) in children less than 14 years of age in the Public Health System of Castilla y León from 2005 to 2010.