Mendonça, Karla Morganna Pereira Pinto deBarbosa, Renata Ramos Tomaz2016-05-172016-05-172014-12-22BARBOSA, Renata Ramos Tomaz. O padrão de respiração oral repercute na qualidade do sono, função respiratória e capacidade funcional de crianças asmáticas? 2015. 67 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Fisioterapia) – Programa de Pós-Graduação em Fisioterapia. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2015.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/20492Introduction: Mouth breathing is common in children with asthma and may cause structural changes which lead to a higher number of acute exacerbations. This study had the aim to analyze if mouth breathing causes damages in quality of sleep, lung functional and functional capacity of children with asthma comparing with healthy children. Methods: The sample consisted of children with asthma and healthy children aged 7-11 years old. All children underwent spirometry, anthropometric measurements and quality of sleep assessment. Children with asthma were divided into two groups: mouth breathing (19 children) and nasal breathing (17 children). A third group consisted of 15 healthy schoolchildren. Results: There were no differences regarding gender, age, height, weight and body mass index among groups. It was not found difference regarding asthma severity (P = 0.20) and different levels of asthma control (P = 0.70). Children with asthma from both groups had a higher occurrence of clinical signs of dyspnea upon exertion (P<0.001) when compared to healthy children. Children from the mouth breathing group showed worse quality of sleep related to disorders of initiating and maintaining sleep (P ≤ 0.05), sleep breathing disorder (P ≤ 0.01), excessive somnolence (P ≤ 0.05) and total score (P ≤ 0.01) when compared to the nasal breathing and the healthy children groups. Conclusion: Data from this study suggest that mouth breathing leads to repercussions on the development of sleep disorders in children with asthma.porAcesso AbertoCriançaAsmaRespiração bucalSonomasterThesisCNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::FISIOTERAPIA E TERAPIA OCUPACIONAL