Table 4.
Actual questions asked by the caregivers
| Types of Questions Asked | Subcategory | Actual Question |
|---|---|---|
| Medication | Asks for clarification or checks for understanding | So, it is that one you turn at the bottom? |
| Do you think that would be something appropriate to do? | ||
| So actually he don’t need the machine anymore just the spacer? | ||
| Does she need both of those together? | ||
| Is it the advair or the inhaler, I forgot? | ||
| Advair is the purple thing, what’s the other? | ||
| Which one is she supposed to be on? | ||
| When he finishes that do another puff and do the same thing? | ||
| Barriers or Side Effects | What are the side effects of singulair? | |
| There is not any kind of danger in that advair is there? | ||
| Are you going to keep her on this … it made her sick and throw up? | ||
| And it’s safe together? | ||
| Device/Technique | The thing like what you just used? | |
| But you don’t turn like the advair every time? | ||
| Okay, so when he is wheezing that is when he uses [the inhaler with the spacer]? | ||
| You were talking about doing a nebulizer treatment when you say twenty minutes or does it matter which? | ||
| Dosage | The dose he is taking is still okay? | |
| Is it the same one, but it’s the higher dose? | ||
| Umm, does he need to go up on that or is that still okay? | ||
| Duration | Okay, he’s not going off the singulair? | |
| Yeah, now how long does he need that? | ||
| Frequency/Timing | The steroid inhaler would he do it every day? | |
| What time do I give him the prednisone in the morning or at night? | ||
| But you do want him before he goes outside to play to use? | ||
| The advair that she takes is everyday two times a day, right? | ||
| Is that one the same like in the morning or just as needed? | ||
| Purpose | Should that help her too with like exercising and stuff like that? | |
| For like a rescue? | ||
| Would you expect that with his advair using it twice a day the way you had recommended that at some point he would be able to run as hard as he wanted to? | ||
| Is that why it didn’t work at all on Sunday then? | ||
| Quantity/Supply | Does he need two prescriptions one for school and one for home? | |
| How will I know the advair gets low? | ||
| So I would need probably two air chambers then? | ||
| It does, how much it have in it? | ||
| So there’s enough in there for three months? | ||
| Will you write me a new prescription for singulair? | ||
| How often is she supposed to get a new machine? | ||
| School use | Do you think he would need um, some medicine at school? | |
| So there will be two? | ||
| Will she have one for home and one to keep at school? | ||
| Type of medicine | All those are rescue type medicine? | |
| But it’s not albuterol? | ||
| What is serevent another antibio, I mean um, um, steroid? | ||
| So Advair is an inhaled corticosteroid right? | ||
| Other | Can you give him a pill if you give him that? | |
| Because doesn’t singulair contain an antihistamine? | ||
| If he needs his inhaler he can still use that? | ||
| Okay, it seems like the pills he takes now is chewable, the 10’s are not chewable? | ||
| Okay, so that is something you do daily? | ||
| Peak Flow Meter | Yeah, I just wasn’t sure what it was supposed to go up to for him. | |
| How many do you want me to record? | ||
| Okay, now how often does he do that little thing? | ||
| So we have to carry that with us too then? | ||
| Environmental Trigger Control or Asthma Triggers | I know something else I was going to ask you, he cuts grass, is it good for him to cut grass? | |
| How would playing the clarinet, flute, or drums affect her asthma? | ||
| Do you think this season is going to be worse with the drought on allergies, ragweed, and stuff? | ||
| Do you think that mold in our house, we have an old house? | ||
| Do you think the cat would be a factor that we should eliminate? | ||
| So, she shouldn’t be around him smoking and stuff, that’s bad on her asthma? |