Asthma control
wheezing, asthma
RESPIRATORY FAILURE, ASTHMA, ASTHMA
Asthma control questionnaire (Kercsmar et al.) was applied consisting of seven dimensions including waking up at night, severity of symptoms during waking up in morning, limitations in doing the activities, respiratory failure, wheezing, the number of spray puffs used, and FEV1 (forced expiratory volume in 1 s) percentage during the last week. Responses were ranked from 0 to 6 in seven scales respectively. A zero score indicates better control of asthma and a score of 6 indicates weak control of asthma. Cronbach's alpha has been reported as 0.85 in the study by Lavoie et al. (Lavoie et al., 