Table 2 Questionnaire responses: Responses to some of the ISAAC asthma and supplementary questions in the questionnaire.
Asthma-allergy day-care centres | Ordinary day-care centres | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
n | % | n | % | |
Ever wheezing | 454 | 45.7 | 1326 | 27.3 |
Possibly false croup | 5 | 0.5 | 58 | 1.2 |
Wheezing in last 12 months | 385 | 38.8 | 908 | 18.7 |
1–3 times | 170 | 17.1 | 656 | 13.5 |
4–12 times | 139 | 14.0 | 193 | 4.0 |
> 12 times | 74 | 7.5 | 49 | 1.0 |
Wheezing with no cold | 207 | 20.9 | 299 | 6.2 |
Wheezing at exercise | 227 | 22.9 | 306 | 6.3 |
Severe wheezing* ) | 105 | 10.6 | 134 | 2.8 |
Night awakenings** ) | 286 | 28.9 | 564 | 11.6 |
< once a week | 203 | 20.5 | 435 | 9.0 |
weekly or more often | 83 | 8.4 | 129 | 2.7 |
Dry cough at night*** ) | 291 | 29.5 | 711 | 14.7 |
Ever had asthma | 328 | 33.0 | 446 | 9.2 |
Physician diagnosis | 304 | 30.7 | 364 | 7.5 |
On inhalation steroids | 276 | 27.6 | 274 | 5.6 |
Emergency treatment | 206 | 20.8 | 354 | 7.3 |