Quantifying preferences for asthma control in parents and adolescents using best–worst scaling

BackgroundUnderstanding the views of parents and children is critical to designing effective asthma management programs. It was hypothesized that parents and adolescents would exhibit heterogenous preferences with regard to asthma control.MethodsFifty parents of children with asthma and 51 adolescents with asthma participated in a best–worst scaling study to quantify preferences regarding night-time symptoms, wheezing/chest tightening, changes...