Pediatric Asthma Management in the Family Context: The Family Asthma Management System Scale
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Pediatric asthma management in the family context: the family asthma management system scale.
OBJECTIVE To examine psychometric properties of a revised version of the Family Asthma Management System Scale (FAMSS), a clinical interview to assess asthma management. METHODS The FAMSS was administered to 115 children with asthma and their primary caregivers, along with a measure of asthma morbidity. A subset of families (n = 53) participated also in objective-adherence monitoring and comp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Pediatric Psychology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1465-735X,0146-8693
DOI: 10.1093/jpepsy/jsi074