Recruitment
Wheezing
RECRUITMENT
Wheezing participants will be recruited at the participating primary care centres and participating hospitals. Potential candidates will be identified by their treating physicians and (specialised) nurses at the primary care practices, outpatient departments, paediatric wards or emergency departments during the recruitment and enrolment phase of the study. Subject information sheets on the study will be handed out to these patients and the parents will be asked to contact the research team for more information about participating in the study.Healthy participants will be recruited through advertisement and distribution of subject information sheets to all parents of 1- to 4-year old toddlers at day-care centres, via centres for youth health care, via general practitioners practices and during pre-operative screening at the outpatient department of the paediatric anaesthesia department of Maastricht University Medical Centre. Also a variety of (social) media will be used for open advertisement.All recruiting materials and subject information sheets have prior approval of the institutional Medical Research Ethics Committee (MREC).