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

S. Saeed Mazloomi; ashraf abbacimoghaddam; Mohammad A. Saba; Mohammad A. Morovati; Hossein Fallahzadeh

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

Author(s):

S. Saeed Mazloomi¹,

ashraf abbacimoghaddam^2,*,

Mohammad A. Saba³,

Mohammad A. Morovati⁴,

Hossein Fallahzadeh⁴

1Professor of Health Education, School of Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

2MSc of Health Education, School of Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.

3Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran.

4Professor of Health Education, School of Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.

Zahedan Journal of Research in Medical Sciences:Vol. 14, issue 1; e93672

Published online:May 26, 2011

Article type:Research Article

Received:Jan 09, 2011

Accepted:Feb 15, 2011

How to Cite:S. Saeed Mazloomiashraf abbacimoghaddamMohammad A. SabaMohammad A. MorovatiHossein FallahzadehThe Relation of Knowledge, Attitude and Self-Management Behaviors in Asthmatic Patients with Controlling Asthma.Zahedan J Res Med Sci.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 ]

Keywords

Knowledge

attitude

self-management behaviors

asthma

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