最新的研究表明，家人就餐时的情形可影响哮喘儿童的病情。

研究人员分析了200个具有5～12岁哮喘患儿的家庭进餐时的情形，及其这些患儿的病情。结果发现，尽管家庭成员在一起进餐的时间也就短短的18分钟左右，但家庭成员在进餐过程中的互动可直接影响哮喘患儿的健康状况，如肺功能、哮喘症状和生活质量等。

通常那些在进餐时家人们相互讨论孩子们在白天的活动，并表示对孩子们的日常活动非常具有兴趣，及其进餐时关掉电视的家庭，其哮喘患儿的健康状况更好。相反，如果一家人在进餐时的谈话等常常因看电视或接电话中断，或很少与孩子们交流的家庭，其哮喘患儿的健康状况往往较差。

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　　FRIDAY, Feb. 4 (HealthDay News) -- The quality of family mealtimes can affect the health of children with asthma, new research suggests.

　　In the study, U.S. researchers observed the mealtime interactions of members of 200 families with children aged 5 to 12 with persistent asthma.

　　While children with asthma generally take medicine before exercise or in a particular season, children with persistent asthma need medication more often, need to avoid different allergens, and usually maintain regular schedules to control the disease.

　　The new study found that mealtimes lasted an average of only 18 minutes but that the quality of interaction between family members was directly related to the children health, including how their lungs worked, their asthma symptoms, and their quality of life.

　　Essentially, children with persistent asthma had better health if they were in families that spent mealtimes discussing the day events, showed genuine interest about their children activities, and turned off electronic devices while eating.

　　Mealtimes with more disruptions -- such as watching TV or talking on cell phones -- and less shared communication were more common among single-parent families, minority families and families in which the primary caregiver had lower levels of education. In turn, children with persistent asthma in these families had poorer health, the researchers said.

　　The study is published in the January/February issue of the journal Child Development.

　　"Mealtimes represent a regular event for the vast majority of families with young, school-age and adolescent children," study leader Barbara H. Fiese, a professor of human and community development and director of the Family Resiliency Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, said in a news release from the Society for Research in Child Development.

　　"[Mealtimes] provide an optimal setting for public health initiatives and prevention efforts, and can be considered by policymakers and practitioners as a straightforward and accessible way to improve the health and wellbeing of children with asthma," she added.

　　SOURCE: Society for Research in Child Development, news release, Feb. 4, 2011