A Psychosomatic Approach to Childhood Asthma

Steiner, Hans; Gk, Fritz; Hilliard, Jomary; Nj, Lewiston

doi:10.3109/02770908209104744

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“…The scientific approaches to study the interrelationship between somatic and psychosocial factors in asthma development have changed over the last decades. The classical psychosomatic concepts of a psychogenic aetiology of asthma bronchiale (Steiner et al 1982) have gradually been replaced by biopsychosocial (e.g. Lehrer, Isemberg & Hochron 1993) and, recently, psychoneuroimmunological (e.g.…”

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Children's and adolescents' perception of their asthma bronchiale

Noeker

Petermann

1998

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The present study examines the perception of asthma bronchiale in a large sample of 382 children and adolescents (mean age = 12.5 years) across three different treatment settings (outpatient, short-term rehabilitation, residential treatment) by using a revised child version of the 'Asthma Problem Behavior Checklist.' A PCA reveals two factors (eigenvalues: 26.3; 4.2; 0.9 ..) with a complementary structure: 'appraisal of asthma-related distress' (explained variance: 48.5%) and 'appraisal of resources in coping with asthma-related distress' (explained variance: 20.9%). Implications for clinical psychological assessment of young patients with asthma and the congruence with the LAZARUS transactional conceptualization of stress and coping are discussed.

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confidence: 99%