Implicit motive research has shown that implicit motives are important predictors of behavior and well-being. However, little is known about the interrelationship between the different implicit motives measures frequently applied. We aimed to shed light on the convergent validity of three implicit motive measures and wanted to test their assumed statistical independence from three explicit moti...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this article was to analyze the quality of life of children suffering from bronchial asthma and to analyze their everyday activity. METHODS The research was conducted in 137 children. The following questionnaires were used in the study: Pediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (PAQLQ) and a questionnaire designed by the authors specifically for the purpose of the st...

3 The purpose of this study was to evaluate the risk of developing exercise induced asthma in 4 atopic Tunisian athletes. The study population was composed by 326 athletes (age: 20.8±2.7 5 yrs –mean ± SD; 138women and 188 men) take out which 107 were elite athletes. 6 The subjects underwent a skin prick test to check for atopy, completed an 8-min running test, 7 and a lung function measure. For...

We wanted to assess limitations in cardiorespiratory fitness of asthmatic subjects, acclimatized to 1,300 m altitude and in a clinically stable state. We therefore studied 16 young asthmatic and 8 normal young subjects during an incremental bicycle exercise test. The asthmatics were divided into two groups, according to the Aas classification: a moderate asthma group (degree 2 and 3, no pulmona...

OBJECTIVE To assess the repeatability and validity of the IUATLD respiratory symptoms questionnaire in relation to exercise-induced bronchoconstriction or bronchodilator responses in a community in southern Ethiopia. DESIGN A case-control study. SETTING Rural and small town setting in southern Ethiopia, April to May 2006. SUBJECTS Two hundred and forty seven adults and children who previo...

CONTEXT Exercise-induced bronchospasm (EIB) is a phenomenon of airway narrowing that occurs during or after exercise or physical exertion. This condition has been reported in a range of sporting activities but is most common in participants of cold-weather sports (eg, Nordic skiing) and indoor sports (eg, ice-skating and swimming). Traditionally, the terms exercise induced-asthma (EIA) and EIB ...

It is known that, in stable asthmatics at rest, tidal expiratory flow limitation (EFL) and dynamic hyperinflation (DH) are seldom present. This study investigated whether stable asthmatics develop tidal EFL and DH during exercise with concurrent limitation of maximal exercise work rate (WRmax). A total of 20 asthmatics in a stable condition and aged 32+/-13 yrs (mean+/-SD) with a forced expirat...

BACKGROUND Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) has a high prevalence in children with asthma, and this is a common problem, even in case of controlled asthma, because of the high levels of physical activity in the childhood. OBJECTIVES The aim of our study was to identify factors associated with the development of EIB in children with controlled asthma. METHODS We studied children ev...

OBJECTIVE The prevalence of asthma is rising, presenting serious public health challenges. Recent data suggest that sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption plays a role in asthma aetiology. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether SSB consumption is linked to post-exercise airway narrowing (predictor of asthma development) across puberty. DESIGN Participants completed pulm...