Looking beyond patients: Can parents' quality of life predict asthma control in children?

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.

Association between quality of life in parents and components of asthma control in children.

Objective: Describe the association between parents' quality of life and the two components of asthma control in children: impairment and risk.

Methods: Cross-sectional study with children between 4 and 14 years of age with active asthma recruited at primary care centers in Spain. Asthma control was assessed according to the Third National Asthma Expert Panel Report, classifying "impairment" in three levels (well-controlled asthma, partially controlled, and poorly controlled), and "risk" as high or low.

Non-therapeutic male circumcision performed on immigrant children from Africa in Spain.

Objectives: To study the frequency, characteristics, and complications of non-therapeutic male circumcision on immigrant children from Africa in Spain.

Methods: This descriptive study focused on primary care consultations conducted at 21 Aragon health centres during 2010 and 2011. The data were gathered through interviewer-administered questionnaires to the parents of African children.

[Nasopharyngeal carriage of pneumococcal serotypes in healthy pre-school aged children after 7-valent pneumococcal vaccine].

Background And Objective: To determine the characteristics influencing pneumococcal serotype colonization in healthy pre-school aged children, the distribution of serotypes and their antimicrobial susceptibility, after the introduction of pneumococcal 7-valent conjugate vaccine (VNC-7 v). SUJETOS AND METHODS: Nasopharyngeal samples were collected from children under 6 years of age attending well-child examinations in the province of Zaragoza (Spain). Logistic regression was used to study different variables related to the status of the carriers.