Mothers provided a range of responses to individual items indicating that the CHSA-CV taps a wide range of asthma experiences. In this study, parents had an opportunity to formally and systematically think about issues of concern and clinicians had an opportunity to review those concerns prior to the patient encounter, yet neither raised many of the problem topics identified by parents. In debriefing interviews, mothers were enthusiastic about being asked the kinds of questions included on the CHSA-CV, not only items pertaining to the child, but also questions about parental worries, concerns and impact on the family. A comment repeated by several participants was that the measure caused them to think about issues not usually considered. Despite a small sample size, preliminary results suggest that the CHSA-CV may be a useful tool in clinical practice.
Further testing is in planning.