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Asthma & Allergies (ISAAC)

The ISAAC questionnaire is developed for the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (section: diseases & symptoms).
It consists of 10 items on symptoms of asthma and 8 items on symptoms of allergies. Both adolescent and child participants filled in the ISAAC questionnaire.

Background

ISAAC is a unique worldwide epidemiological research programme established in 1991 to investigate asthma, rhinitis and eczema in children due to considerable concern that these conditions were increasing in western and developing countries.
ISAAC has become the largest worldwide collaborative research project ever undertaken, involving more than 100 countries and nearly 2 million children and its aim is to develop environmental measures and disease monitoring in order to form the basis for future interventions to reduce the burden of allergic and non-allergic diseases, especially in children in developing countries.
The ISAAC findings have shown that these diseases are increasing in developing countries and that they have little to do with allergy, especially in the developing world. Further population studies are urgently needed to discover more about the underlying mechanisms of non-allergic causes of asthma, rhinitis and eczema and the burden of these conditions.

Variables

Questions English	Questions Dutch	Variable	Assessment	Age
Have you ever had wheezing or whistling in the chest at any time in the past?	Heb je ooit last gehad van piepen op de borst?	ACHISAACA1
In the past 12 months, have you had a dry cough at night, apart from a cough associated with a cold or chest infection?	Heb je in de afgelopen 12 maanden 's nachts een droge hoest gehad, zonder dat je verkouden was of een infectie op de borst had?	ACHISAACA10	QROA	18+
Have you had wheezing or whistling in the chest in the past 12 months?	Heb je in de afgelopen 12 maanden last gehad van piepen op de borst?	ACHISAACA2	QROA	18+
How many attacks of wheezing have you had in the past 12 months?	Hoeveel aanvallen van piepen op de borst heb je in de afgelopen 12 maanden gehad?	ACHISAACA3	QROA	18+
In the past 12 months, how often, on average, has your sleep been disturbed due to wheezing?	Hoe vaak in de afgelopen 12 maanden had je gemiddeld een verstoorde slaap door het piepen op de borst?	ACHISAACA4	QROA	18+
In the past 12 months, has wheezing ever been severe enough to limit your speech to only one or two words at a time between breaths?	Was het piepen in de afgelopen 12 maanden ooit zo erg dat je tussen het ademhalen door maar 1 of 2 woorden achter elkaar kon zeggen?	ACHISAACA5	QROA	18+
N/A	Had je in de afgelopen 12 maanden astma?	ACHISAACA6	QROA NEXT	18+
Have you ever had asthma?	Heeft een arts ooit astma bij je vastgesteld?	ACHISAACA7	QROA NEXT	18+
N/A	Hoe oud was je toen voor het eerst astma door een arts bij je werd vastgesteld?	ACHISAACA8	QROA NEXT	18+
In the past 12 months, has your chest sounded wheezy during or after exercise?	Heb je in de afgelopen 12 maanden last gehad van piepen op de borst tijdens of na inspanning?	ACHISAACA9	QROA NEXT	18+
Have you ever had a problem with sneezing, or a runny, or blocked nose when you DID NOT have a cold or the flu?	Heb je ooit last gehad van niezen, een loopneus of een verstopte neus terwijl je niet een verkoudheid of griep had?	ACHISAACH1	QROA NEXT	18+
In the past 12 months, have you had a problem with sneezing, or a runny, or blocked nose when you DID NOT have a cold or the flu?	Heb je in de afgelopen 12 maanden last gehad van niezen, een loopneus of een verstopte neus terwijl je niet een verkoudheid of griep had?	ACHISAACH2	QROA NEXT	18+
In the past 12 months, has this nose problem been accompanied by itchy-watery eyes?	Gingen de neusproblemen in de afgelopen 12 maanden gepaard met tranende, jeukende ogen?	ACHISAACH3	QROA NEXT	18+
January / In which of the past 12 months did this nose problem occur? (Please tick any which apply)	Januari / In welke van de laatste 12 maanden kwamen deze neusklachten voor?	ACHISAACH4A	QROA NEXT	18+
February / In which of the past 12 months did this nose problem occur? (Please tick any which apply)	Februari / In welke van de laatste 12 maanden kwamen deze neusklachten voor?	ACHISAACH4B	QROA NEXT	18+
March / In which of the past 12 months did this nose problem occur? (Please tick any which apply)	Maart / In welke van de laatste 12 maanden kwamen deze neusklachten voor?	ACHISAACH4C
April / In which of the past 12 months did this nose problem occur? (Please tick any which apply)	April / In welke van de laatste 12 maanden kwamen deze neusklachten voor?	ACHISAACH4D	NEXT	18+
May / In which of the past 12 months did this nose problem occur? (Please tick any which apply)	Mei / In welke van de laatste 12 maanden kwamen deze neusklachten voor?	ACHISAACH4E	NEXT	18+
June / In which of the past 12 months did this nose problem occur? (Please tick any which apply)	Juni / In welke van de laatste 12 maanden kwamen deze neusklachten voor?	ACHISAACH4F	NEXT	18+
July / In which of the past 12 months did this nose problem occur? (Please tick any which apply)	Juli / In welke van de laatste 12 maanden kwamen deze neusklachten voor?	ACHISAACH4G	NEXT	18+
August / In which of the past 12 months did this nose problem occur? (Please tick any which apply)	Augustus / In welke van de laatste 12 maanden kwamen deze neusklachten voor?	ACHISAACH4H	NEXT	18+
September / In which of the past 12 months did this nose problem occur? (Please tick any which apply)	September / In welke van de laatste 12 maanden kwamen deze neusklachten voor?	ACHISAACH4I	NEXT	18+
October / In which of the past 12 months did this nose problem occur? (Please tick any which apply)	Oktober / In welke van de laatste 12 maanden kwamen deze neusklachten voor?	ACHISAACH4J
November / In which of the past 12 months did this nose problem occur? (Please tick any which apply)	November / In welke van de laatste 12 maanden kwamen deze neusklachten voor?	ACHISAACH4K
December / In which of the past 12 months did this nose problem occur? (Please tick any which apply)	December / In welke van de laatste 12 maanden kwamen deze neusklachten voor?	ACHISAACH4L
In the past 12 months, how much did this nose problem interfere with your daily activities?	Werd je in de afgelopen 12 maanden door deze neusklachten beperkt bij je dagelijkse activiteiten?	ACHISAACH5
N/A	Heb je in de afgelopen 12 maanden enige vorm van neusallergie (inclusief hooikoorts) gehad?	ACHISAACH6
Have you ever had hayfever?	Heeft een arts ooit enige vorm van neusallergie (inclusief hooikoorts) bij je vastgesteld?	ACHISAACH7
N/A	Hoe oud was je toen voor het eerst een neusallergie (inclusief hooikoorts) door een arts bij je werd vastgesteld?	ACHISAACH8

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