Reference
Asher, M. I., Keil, U., Anderson, H. R., Beasley, R., Crane, J., Martinez, F., ... & Stewart, A. W. (1995). International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC): rationale and methods. The European respiratory journal, 8(3), 483–491. https://doi.org/10.1183/09031936.95.08030483
List of questions
Section | Question number | Question | Original 22-item version 6–7 year old | 17-item Asthma and Wheezing version | 11-item version | 6-item version | 6-item version (1) | 4-item Eczema version |
A. Wheezing module | 1 | Has your child ever had wheezing or whistling in the chest at any time in the past? | ✓ | ✓ |
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2 | Has your child had wheezing or whistling in the chest in the last 12 months? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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3 | How many attacks of wheezing has your child had in the last 12 months? | ✓ | ✓ |
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4 | In the last 12 months, how often, on average, has your child's sleep been disturbed due to wheezing? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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5 | In the last 12 months, has wheezing ever been severe enough to limit your child's speech to only one or two words at a time between breaths? | ✓ | ✓ |
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6 | Has your child ever had asthma? | ✓ | ✓ |
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7 | In the last 12 months, has your child's chest sounded wheezy during or after exercise? | ✓ | ✓ |
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8 | In the last 12 months, has your child had a dry cough at night, apart from a cough associated with a cold or a chest infection? | ✓ | ✓ |
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B. Rhinitis module | 9 | Has your child ever had a problem with sneezing, or a runny, or a blocked nose when he/she DID NOT have a cold or the flu? | ✓ |
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10 | In the past 12 months, has your child had a problem with sneezing, or a runny, or a blocked nose when he/she DID NOT have a cold or the flu? | ✓ |
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11 | In the past 12 months, has this nose problem been accompanied by itchy-watery eyes? | ✓ |
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12 | In which of the past 12 months did this nose problem occur? | ✓ |
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13 | In the past 12 months, how much did this nose problem interfere with your child's daily activities? | ✓ |
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14 | Has your child ever had hay fever? | ✓ |
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C. Eczema module | 15 | Has your child ever had an itchy rash which was coming and going for at least 6 months? | ✓ |
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16 | Has your child had this itchy rash at any time in the last 12 months? | ✓ |
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17 | Has this itchy rash at any time affected any of the following places: the folds of the elbows, behind the knees, in front of the ankles, under the buttocks, or around the neck, ears or eyes? | ✓ |
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18 | Has this rash cleared completely at any time during the last 12 months? | ✓ |
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19 | At what age did this itchy rash first occur? | ✓ |
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20 | Has this rash cleared completely at any time during the last 12 months? | ✓ |
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21 | In the last 12 months, how often, on average, has your child been kept awake at night by this itchy rash? | ✓ |
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22 | Has your child ever had eczema? | ✓ |
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| 23 | Was the asthma diagnosed by a doctor? |
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24 | How old was he/she when he/she was first diagnosed (with asthma)? |
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25 | Has he/she ever been admitted to hospital for asthma? |
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26 | Has he/she received inhalers or other medication for asthma prescribed by a doctor in the past 12 months? |
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27 | Were these wheezy or whistling episodes associated with colds? |
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28 | Has he/she ever wheezed or whistled in the chest between colds? |
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29 | At what age did your child last wheeze? |
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30 | Has your child ever been prescribed an asthma reliever inhaler? |
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31 | Did it help his/her breathing (wheezing or coughing) to improve? |
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32 | Has he/she been diagnosed by a doctor as having had pneumonia or bronchiolitis? |
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33 | Has he/she been diagnosed by a doctor as having had bronchitis or chest infection? |
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34 | Has he/she been treated with an antibiotic syrup for an infection? |
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35 | In the past 12 months, has he/she had any episodes or croup or croupy cough? |
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36 | Has he/she suffered from a generally dry skin? |
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Use of this scale in CLOSER Discovery study questionnaires and datasets