ISSN: 2161-0665
						Tejinder Singh 
	
					    												
India						                            
                            
						
 Research Article
												Assessment of Quality of Life in Children with Asthma and Epilepsy 						
Author(s): Chamanpreet S Gandhi ,Shaveta Kundra ,Tejinder Singh ,Gurmeet K Chaudary ,Khosla PP Chamanpreet S Gandhi ,Shaveta Kundra ,Tejinder Singh ,Gurmeet K Chaudary ,Khosla PP              
						
												
				 Objective: To study quality of life in asthmatic and epileptic children undergoing treatment. 
Materials and methods: Study enrolled children attending the OPD or admitted in the hospital. Normal children or those having no chronic disease served as controls. Data was collected from the children and their guardians who had taken care of the child for at least six months by using a Peds QL questionnaire, appropriate for the age of the child. 
Results: A total of 269 children including 75 asthmatics, 94 epileptics and 100 controls were enrolled from the OPD. The two samples were compared on four domains of quality of life: physical, emotional, social, and educational. Our major finding was that children with epilepsy had a relatively more compromised quality of life in the emotional, social, and educational domains. In contrast, children with asthma had a more compromised .. View More»
				  
												DOI:
												 10.4172/2161-0665.1000175