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Clinical Trial
. 1996 Dec;37(4):221-45.

[Family education, a model for allergy prevention]

[Article in Spanish]
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Clinical Trial

[Family education, a model for allergy prevention]

[Article in Spanish]
D Perdomo-Ponce et al. Invest Clin. 1996 Dec.

Abstract

It is frequent the lack of family adherence toward the therapeutic measures of the allergic diseases. The incidence in the therapeutic non compliance of the asthmatic patients vary from 20 to 80%. In the last decades, the symptomatic expression of the atopic diseases (AD) in the infancy, and in the adolescence of Venezuelans has been transformed into a health care problem, with an inaccessible therapeutic cost for the state and the family. The setup of the first allergic prevention program improved attitudes and perceptions toward bronchial asthma, allergic rhinitis, and atopic dermatitis, by the education of the risk family group, based on the results from previous investigations and adapted to the procedures and customs that govern our current society. A research project, through a multi-disciplinary group included an educational program model for the prevention of allergic diseases in a population from Caracas, Venezuelan allergic pregnant mothers, and their respective couples of a high and middle socioeconomic levels with no helminthic infections (n = 482), group A. Two subgroups were randomly selected for prospective evaluation: A1 (n = 20) without participation in the preventive program or control group, and A2 (n = 15) with participation in the program or intervened group, including strategies to be applied by the family, application of measures and reached goals; immunologic, pediatric, and nutritional sequential control; group B (n = 66), to validate the laboratory tests, and group C (n = 364) to validate immunoclinical diagnoses, in vivo immunodiagnostic tests to the parents and children (clinical history, skin prick tests for cow's milk, egg white, wheat, soybean, cladosporium and Dermatophagoides pteronnysinus), and in vitro tests (total serum IgE, Phadiatop, and Rast to the allergens previously selected). In conclusion, the program permits the identification of atopic risk children, sponsors the systematical application of intervention measures, economic, viable and projected toward the family affected, indicating a positive change through a self-family-management training and new conduct plans, facilitating the participation among the family, the community and the health team, that certifies, an optimistic therapy in the reduction of the clinical manifestations of the atopic diseases in young infants from this tropical population studied.

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