Study and Development of Application Models of "Therapeutic Education to the Patient" (TEP) in Asthmatic Children (TEP)

25 Case Patients will follow the Therapeutic Education to the Patient (TEP).

In addition the following procedures will be performed:

• Pediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (PAQLQ);
• Children Asthma Control Test (C-ACT);
• Pediatric Caregiver Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (PCAQLQ);
• Functional respiratory tests: forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), forced expiratory flow between 25% and 75% (FEF 25-75), forced vital capacity (FVC) and Peak expiratory flow (PEF)

• Educational Diagnosis, asking what patient has, what he knows, what he is doing, what he would like to do.
• Therapeutic Contract, to define objectives to reach at the end of educational path, integrating new knowledges and replacing wrong cognitive-behavior models with new schemes.
• Educational Therapeutic Intervention, with individual or group methodologies (Role Playing, Brain Storming) and a disease diary in which patients could describe symptoms, therapies, behaviors and benefits.
• Assessing of the knowledges acquired by patients.

• TEP

25 Control Patients will follow the usual care program:

• The Pediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (PAQLQ);
• The Children Asthma Control Test (C-ACT);
• the Pediatric Caregiver Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (PCAQLQ);
• Functional respiratory tests: forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), forced expiratory flow between 25% and 75% (FEF 25-75), forced vital capacity (FVC) and Peak expiratory flow (PEF)

The main objective is to measure the impact of the program on the QOL of asthmatic primary-school aged children seen for the first time in consultation with a pediatric pulmonologist.

QOL of the children, will be assessed by Pediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire, PAQLQ.

The secondary objective is to assess the effects of the program on the QOL of parents.

QOL of the accompanying parent will be assessed by the Pediatric Asthma Caregiver's Quality of Life Questionnaire (PACQLQ)

The secondary objective is to assess the effects of the program on asthma management.

Asthma management will be assessed by Childhood Asthma Control Test (C-ACT)

The secondary objective is to assess the effects of the program on parameters of functional respiratory tests.(FRT).

FRT will be assessed by forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), forced expiratory flow between 25% and 75% (FEF 25-75), the forced vital capacity (FVC) and Peak expiratory flow (PEF).