TY - BOOK AU - Alshaimaa Salama Elattar AU - Dalia Ahmed Mohamed , AU - Mohamed Saad Elbaz , AU - Zeinab Mohamed Radwan , TI - Epidemiological features and quality of life in school age asthmatic children in cairo : : Community-based study / PY - 2013/// CY - Cairo : PB - Alshaimaa Salama Elattar , KW - Epidemiology KW - Quality of life KW - School age N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics; Issued also as CD N2 - The aims of work were to determine the prevalence of childhood asthma, associated risk factors, and to assess the quality of life of the children and caregivers. The sample was randomly chosen from Nasr-City in Cairo governorate. 1461 families participated with 2394 school age children. 250 children were asthmatic with prevalence of 10.4%. Statistically significant relations were detected between the quality of life and each of maternal age, maternal education, maternal occupation, crowding index, house ventilation, Hospital admission for asthma, and Medical information by medical team about asthma ER -