ISAAC Asthma Questions (6-7 Year Old)
- Claudia Alioto
Owned by Claudia Alioto
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? | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| 2 | Has your child had wheezing or whistling in the chest in the last 12 months? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| 3 | How many attacks of wheezing has your child had in the last 12 months? | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| 4 | In the last 12 months, how often, on average, has your child's sleep been disturbed due to wheezing? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| 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? | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| 6 | Has your child ever had asthma? | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| 7 | In the last 12 months, has your child's chest sounded wheezy during or after exercise? | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| 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? | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| 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? | ✓ | |||||
| 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? | ✓ | ||||||
| 11 | In the past 12 months, has this nose problem been accompanied by itchy-watery eyes? | ✓ | ||||||
| 12 | In which of the past 12 months did this nose problem occur? | ✓ | ||||||
| 13 | In the past 12 months, how much did this nose problem interfere with your child's daily activities? | ✓ | ||||||
| 14 | Has your child ever had hay fever? | ✓ | ||||||
| C. Eczema module | 15 | Has your child ever had an itchy rash which was coming and going for at least 6 months? | ✓ | |||||
| 16 | Has your child had this itchy rash at any time in the last 12 months? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| 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? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| 18 | Has this rash cleared completely at any time during the last 12 months? | ✓ | ||||||
| 19 | At what age did this itchy rash first occur? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| 20 | Has this rash cleared completely at any time during the last 12 months? | ✓ | ||||||
| 21 | In the last 12 months, how often, on average, has your child been kept awake at night by this itchy rash? | ✓ | ||||||
| 22 | Has your child ever had eczema? | ✓ | ||||||
| Items which are not included in the original version | ||||||||
| 23 | Was the asthma diagnosed by a doctor? | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| 24 | How old was he/she when he/she was first diagnosed (with asthma)? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| 25 | Has he/she ever been admitted to hospital for asthma? | ✓ | ||||||
| 26 | Has he/she received inhalers or other medication for asthma prescribed by a doctor in the past 12 months? | ✓ | ||||||
| 27 | Were these wheezy or whistling episodes associated with colds? | ✓ | ||||||
| 28 | Has he/she ever wheezed or whistled in the chest between colds? | ✓ | ||||||
| 29 | At what age did your child last wheeze? | ✓ | ||||||
| 30 | Has your child ever been prescribed an asthma reliever inhaler? | ✓ | ||||||
| 31 | Did it help his/her breathing (wheezing or coughing) to improve? | ✓ | ||||||
| 32 | Has he/she been diagnosed by a doctor as having had pneumonia or bronchiolitis? | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| 33 | Has he/she been diagnosed by a doctor as having had bronchitis or chest infection? | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| 34 | Has he/she been treated with an antibiotic syrup for an infection? | ✓ | ||||||
| 35 | In the past 12 months, has he/she had any episodes or croup or croupy cough? | ✓ | ||||||
| 36 | Has he/she suffered from a generally dry skin? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Use of this scale in CLOSER Discovery study questionnaires and datasets
| Version | Study | Year | Questionnaire | Database |
| 17-item Asthma and Wheezing version | SWS | - | 6-7 Year Home Questionnaire | 6-7 Year Home Questionnaire Dataset |
| 11-item version | SWS | 2002-2011 | 3 Year Child Questionnaire | 3 Year Child Questionnaire Dataset |
| 6-item version | SWS | 2000-2009 | 12 Months Infancy Questionnaire | |
| 6-item version (1) | SWS | 2001-2010 | 24 Months Child Questionnaire | |
| 4-item Eczema version | SWS | 1999-2008 | 6 Months Infancy Questionnaire |