Sande O. Okelo|Michelle N. Eakin|Cecilia María Patino|Alvin P. Teodoro|Andrew Bilderback|Darcy A. Thompson|Antonio Loiaza-Martinez|Cynthia S. Rand|Shannon Thyne|Gregory B. Diette|Kristin A. Riekert
The Pediatric Asthma Control and Communication Instrument asthma questionnaire: For use in diverse children of all ages
University of California, Los Angeles|Johns Hopkins University|University of Southern California|Presbyterian Hospital|Cornell University|Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins Medicine|Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins University|University of California, San Francisco|Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins University
national institutes health asthma guidelines recommend questionnaires assess asthma control questionnaires useable across entire pediatric age spectrum validated among significant numbers minority spanishspeaking childrenwe sought evaluate questionnaire designed assess asthma control across broad age range minority spanishspeaking children cared outpatient settingbetween july 1 2007 september 30 2010 collected information using pediatric asthma control communication instrument pacci asthma control test act childhood act children 411 years old pediatric asthma caregiver quality life questionnaire lung function clinicians ratings asthma status among population children presenting routine asthma specialist care pacci measure asthma control validated evaluating accuracy internal reliability concurrent discriminative knowngroups validitywe collected information 265 english 52 spanishspeaking children mean age 82 years 58 male 44 african american across age groups languages pacci control showed good internal reliability strong concurrent discriminative knowngroups validity act pediatric asthma caregiver quality life questionnaire scores clinicians ratings asthma control accuracy pacci classifying children uncontrolled asthma good area curve 083 95 ci 079088the pacci accurately measures asthma control english spanishspeaking children pacci useful clinicians assess classify asthma according national institutes health asthma guidelines