Outcome of An Educational Program on Bronchial Asthma Self-Management

Abstract

Background: Bronchial asthma is a highly prevalent chronic respiratory disease that affects over 300 million persons worldwide with a mortality rate of approximately 250,000 annually. Instructing asthma patients about their illness is significant and the principle accentuation is to build patients' information and to elevate patients' adherence to medication plans. The absence of data about self-management had prompted reluctance of asthmatic patients to disease management activities. Objective: To improve bronchial asthma control in asthmatic patients. This study arranged and executed the bronchial asthma instructive program and assessed and elevated the level of information about asthma self-management strategy of inhaler use and asthma control after training program among adult asthmatic patients. Patients and Methods: An intervention study was conducted on 97 asthmatic patients attended Chest Hospital at Menoufia Governorate. All studied patients were evaluated through four questionnaires titled sociodemographic characteristics, Asthma Self-Management Questionnaire (ASMQ), GINA-2017 criteria of asthma control and a checklist to assess technique of inhaler use. All participants were subjected to health education program. Results: The results revealed that there was a statistically significant difference between patients' knowledge of asthma self-management, accuracy of inhaler use technique and asthma control before and after the educational program where P < 0.001. Conclusion: Based upon the results of this study, it could be concluded that implementation of educational program had a positive effect on improvement of the patients' knowledge, practices and self-care strategies post program implementation compared to pre-program implementation.

Effect of Implementing Respiratory Guidelines on Asthmatic Patients

“…Regarding sex, the findings of the present study clarified that (more than one third and about two third of the studied patients of both study and control group were male, from the researcher point of view this might be due to most of men are worker and exposed to asthma triggers. This finding was matched with Eissaetal, (2020) (30) who performed a study to evaluate outcome of an educational program on bronchial asthma self-management at chest hospital at Menoufia governorate and found that about more than half of the studied patients were male. Regarding to associated symptoms of asthma.…”

“…The capacity of this settings was (15) beds. Subjects: Purposive of 60 adult patients with diagnosis of asthma were selected based power analysis calculation on software program, and was divided into two equal groups (30) patients in each as follow. Group I (study group) received care with respiratory practice guidelines of asthma beside hospital routine care.…”

Effect of educational programme on patients with bronchial asthma regarding self -care management

“…Eissa et al reported that three-quarters of their sample was aged 18-35 years. 10 In contrast, Ibrahim et al reported that more than half of those surveyed were aged 40-60 years. 11 In the current study, more than two-thirds of patients could read and write, which is in agreement with Elbur et al who had more than half of their asthmatic participants with a college education.…”