Agreement between written and video asthma symptoms questionnaires in school children in Urmia, Iran

摘要: The prevalence of asthma remains difficult to determine with precision no absolute or gold standard for diagnosis. International Study Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) developed video questionnaire epidemiological studies less reliance on understanding written questionnaire. aim this research was the agreement between ISAAC questionnaires (AVQ3.0) respiratory symptoms reported asthma. We studied 3000 children aged 13-14 years Urmia, Iran who completed sequentially at school. responses two wheeze ever, current wheeze, exercise, nocturnal (the latter three questions relating previous 12 months), any combination examined by using concordance kappa coefficients as measures agreement. were significantly lower based compared Although high (75% 93%) related questions, measured statistic each question only poor i.e. 0.22, 0.21, 0.13 resting exercise induced respectively. conclude that yields rates symptoms, there is Iranian children.