@entity565 is one of the most common chronic chilhood disease. Asthmatic @entity1 need a self-management educational program, besides the medical treatment and clinical control. Camps are the ideal place to complete the educational program, to get the right control of the disease and to build the @entity1 confidence. Madrid Castilla la Mancha @entity566 Society organizes every year a summer camp in a town, near Madrid. Fifty-four @entity1 stay for one week with certified allergists, fellows-in-training, nurses and cheer-leaders.Fifty-four @entity1 from 8 to 14 years old, with moderate to severe @entity565 participate in the camp. The camp includes educational, @entity2587 and social activities. Campers participate daily in instructive and didactic teaching sessions. We evaluate quality of life with a questionaire filled in the camp and two months later. Results are analysed into two age groups, one between 8-10 years old and the other from 11 to 14 years old. The first group get a good management and improve their vision of the disease, quite the contrary, adolescents face up to a @entity102 with daily treatment, feeling @entity565 as a restriction of their autonomy. Even so, they identify crisis and learn to control them in an special risky life period. @entity565 camps is a good experience for both groups and also for sanitary equipment.

XXXX camp. Quality of life questionnaires.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['children', 'child'] @entity565 :: ('MESH:D001249', 'Disease') :: ['asthma', 'Asthma'] @entity566 :: ('MESH:D006967', 'Disease') :: ['Allergy'] @entity102 :: ('MESH:D002908', 'Disease') :: ['chronic disease'] @entity2587 :: ('MESH:D001265', 'Disease') :: ['athletic']
@entity565 :: (MESH:D001249,Disease) :: ['Asthma']
