Family management styles for children with asthma: A latent profile analysis.
Keke Lin, Yuying Zhang, Xudong He and 3 others
PMID 39180234WHAT IT FOUND
Families of children with asthma grouped into three management profiles, and the profiles were linked to asthma control.
Cross-sectional survey data cannot show that a style improves control.
Key findings
01A three-profile latent model fit the data best.
02The three profiles differed in asthma control level (chi-square=59.86, p<0.001).
03Child age and gender, mother's education, family structure, illness impact on parents' work/family life, follow-up plans, and reading disease pamphlets predicted profile membership.
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What it does not show
Convenience sampling from four tertiary hospitals, with small rural representation, may limit generalisability across China. The study is cross-sectional, so it cannot show that family management style causes asthma control or that any predictor caused profile membership. It was a secondary analysis of data originally collected to study asthma control and quality of life. The profile labels were borrowed from a qualitative framework developed in another cultural context, so the labels may not exactly match the quantitative groups. The findings may be limited to Chinese family culture and may not apply globally.
Declared interests
The research received no specific grant from any funding agency. The authors declared no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that a more adaptive family style causes better asthma control. The study is cross-sectional, and families with follow-up plans or who read pamphlets were more likely to be in a profile with lower total family management scores, so these factors may reflect poorer control rather than poor management.