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- Title
The Need to Educate, Knowledge and Attitudes about Asthma for Quality of Life.
- Authors
Pooyanmehr, Mehrdad; Khazaei, Milad; Shamohamadi, Masood; Azarhosh, Milad
- Abstract
Objective: Bronchial asthma is a chronic disease that affects a high percentage of young people (adolescents), with a significant restriction of daily activities. There is relationship between life style and asthma disease in society people. Knowledge and attitudes toward asthma can condition the integration of people with asthma and affect their quality of life, were assessed, with a view to improving knowledge about the asthmatic people. The aim this study, our objective was to determine the state of knowledge, attitudes on asthma in society people and its relationship to quality of life of pupils with asthma, as an early step to an educational intervention. Material and Methods: Descriptive and cross-sectional study of aged 19 and 28 years old in non- medical students Universities' Kermanshah province of Iran and Knowledge about Asthma was evaluated 100 students in grades BSc, MSc, DVM and PhD were included. We used, study tools of the asthma knowledge questionnaire, Quality of Life and x2 & one-way ANOVA tests and P value<0.05 were applied for statistical analysis. Results: We studied on 100 people (grades BSc, MSc, DVM & PhD students) showed, all had little knowledge about asthma. The quality of life in asthma was mild to moderately affected and lower in female 41% than in male 49.4. We found no relationship between knowledge, attitudes and quality of life in asthma. (P<0.05) Conclusion: We found a low level of knowledge about asthma in non- medical students Universities' Kermanshah. Asthma sufferers have a mild to moderate asthma quality of life, Female students had less knowledge about asthma. There was also no association with attitudes to asthma in all groups, or with the quality of life of asthma sufferers. However Theoretical material in the form of a booklet can be used in a schools and universities-based asthma education program in order to improve the knowledge of about asthma.
- Publication
Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, 2018, Vol 17, p158
- ISSN
1735-1502
- Publication type
Academic Journal