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Zahedan Journal of Research in Medical Sciences: Vol.14, issue 1; e93672
published online: May 26, 2011
article type: Research Article
received: January 09, 2011
accepted: February 15, 2011

The Relation of Knowledge, Attitude and Self-Management Behaviors in Asthmatic Patients with Controlling Asthma

authors:

avatar S. Saeed Mazloomi 1 , avatar ashraf abbacimoghaddam 2 , * , avatar Mohammad A. Saba 3 , avatar Mohammad A. Morovati 4 , avatar Hossein Fallahzadeh 4

Professor of Health Education, School of Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
MSc of Health Education, School of Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran.
Professor of Health Education, School of Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.

how to cite: Mazloomi S S, abbacimoghaddam A, Saba M A, Morovati M A, Fallahzadeh H. The Relation of Knowledge, Attitude and Self-Management Behaviors in Asthmatic Patients with Controlling Asthma. Zahedan J Res Med Sci. 2012;14(1):e93672. 

Abstract

Background: Incidence of asthma is 5.5% in Iran. Patients with asthma need frequent self-management in order to control the symptoms maintaining natural lung activity. The aim of this study is to study the effective factors of self-management behaviors, and its relation with controlling asthma in asthmatic patients in Kashan.
  Materials and Method: Simple sampling was employed to recruit 102 asthmatic patients referring to asthmatic therapeutic centers of Kashan, Iran. A descriptive, cross-sectional design was conducted and the data were collected using a survey questionnaire based on knowledge and attitude factors and self-management behavior constructions and asthma control test. SPSS software for Windows was used for analyzing data (t -test, ANOVA , correlation and regression).
  Results: The respondents acquired 46.8% of total asthma knowledge score, 82.2% of attitude score. Respondents with acquisition 57.7% of total asthma self-management behavior score placed in middle class. The acquired score in asthma control is low class (40.28%). Negative relation between knowledge and asthma control was observed.
  Conclusion: The results showed that if the situation of knowledge and attitude factors are better, the self-management behaviors in asthmatic patients will be better and if the situation self-management behavior be better, asthma control will be better, too. Negative relation between knowledge and asthma control needs more researches . [ZJRMS, 2012 14(1): 49-55 ]
 

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