TY - JOUR T1 - Effect of asthma control and quality of life on the use of alternative medicine JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J VL - 40 IS - Suppl 56 SP - P4101 AU - Ela Erdem AU - Yasemin Gokdemir AU - Refika Ersu AU - Fazilet Karakoc AU - Bulent Karadag Y1 - 2012/09/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/40/Suppl_56/P4101.abstract N2 - Asthma is the most common chronic lower respiratory tract disease of childhood. It may affect the quality of life of the child and the parents. Nowadays, use of alternative treatment (AT) methods are increased in treatment of asthma and/or relief of symptoms. But there are limited studies showing the efficiency of AT and evaluating the asssociation between asthma control and AT usage. We investigated the prevalance of AT usage and effect of AT usage on asthma control and quality of life in patients with asthma.Study included 80 patients with asthma followed up in Pediatric Pulmonology Department. “Pediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire” (PAQLQ) was used to evaluate the quality of life; “Asthma Control Test” (ACT) and “Asthma Control Questionnaire” (ACQ) were used to measure asthma control.Mean age of the patients were 9.2±3.2. 63.8% of the patients used at least one method of AT in their life besides the recommended treatment. The most commonly used methods were; carob molasses (36.3%), herbals (%26.3), quails (22.5%), honey in black radish (15%), chestnut honey (11.3%) and bee pollen (5%), respectively. Of whole, 59.6% of the patients got benefit from AT. Mean score of PAQLQ was 5.9±1.0. Parents with younger kids were found to use more AT methods (p=0.002). There were no association between the use of AT and time of the diagnosis of asthma, time of anti-inflammatory drugs usage, PAQLQ, ACT and ACQ (p>0.05).In conclusion, AT is frequently used in our patients. We found that there was no effect of level of asthma control and quality of life on preferring AT. ER -