Table 2.
Parents interpretation of children’s respiratory symptoms.6
| A study in the East end of London, invited parents (first language English, Urdu, Bengali (Sylheti), or Turkish) to view a video of children’s respiratory symptoms: |
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| • A third of parents use other words for wheeze; a third falsely label other sounds as wheeze |
| • Compared to other respiratory sounds, parents are more likely to label wheeze correctly |
| • Parents are better able to locate sounds than to label them |
| • There was no significant difference between parents of wheezers and non-wheezers in accuracy of labelling of location |
| • Parents are better at labelling if English is their first language |