The fear of asthma symptoms scale and the asthma behavior checklist: preliminary validity of two novel patient reported outcome measures.

Marianne BonnertBjorn RoelstraeteSten-Erik BergstromJohan Bjureberg Erik AnderssonCatarina Almqvist

Published in: The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma (2022)

We observed promising psychometric properties of the FAS and the ABC-8. The two novel scales could be useful to identify excessive fear and avoidance in patients with asthma and to investigate putative mechanisms in clinical research on anxiety related to asthma. Further evaluation of psychometric properties in independent samples are needed.

Keyphrases

psychometric properties
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
lung function
allergic rhinitis
patient reported outcomes
cystic fibrosis
sleep quality
depressive symptoms
weight loss