Taminskiene V, et al. - This is the first study in an Eastern European population describing a caregiver’s quality of life in the context of childhood asthma. Parents of 527 children with asthma, filled out the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory Family Impact Module. Additional difficulties like anxiety and financial hardship, waking with asthma symptoms one or more nights a week, regular use of symptoms reliever medication, and female gender were the factors independently linked with a lower quality of life. The investigators found that lower familial socioeconomic status and exposure to molds in the home doubled the odds for lower quality of life. The quality of life of the family of a child with asthma depends on not simply asthma-related factors, but related factors like poverty, which play an even greater role.