This research aimed to investigate 1) To study the symptom experience, symptom management, and the outcomes of the common respiratory problems in pre school children via their caregivers 2) To study the relationship between the symptom experience, symptoms management, the outcomes with personal and health data. Caregivers caring for three to six-year-old pre-school children were recruited by simple random sampling from Tumbol Satengnok. One hundred ninety-two were selected to complete a set of questionnaires and another eight to be informants for semi-structured interviews. Descriptive statistics were applied for quantitative data analysisfrequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation. Pearson product-moment was also used to determine the hypotheses. Qualitative data were classified to be categories using content analysis. The findings showed that the caregivers are general mothers who have experiences in taking care of the children having common respiratory symptoms. They knew the symptoms by assessing the changes in playing behaviors and physical happiness. The caregivers reported that most problems are caused by some of the childrens overplaying activities. Therefore, they tried to manage the symptoms showed by reducing some activities, using traditional herbs, and making more caressing touch their children. For the outcomes of symptom management, 50 percent could be recovered without seeking other treatments. Symptom experience, symptom management, and the outcomes of pre-school children caregivers were statistically significant differences, p <0.01. Age was statistically significant difference in Symptom experience and symptom management, p <0.01, whereas it was no significant difference in age and the outcomes correlation, p <0.05.

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