Cent Eur J Nurs Midw 2011, 2(4):303-311

The patient knowledge of an asthma self-management

Michaela Dingová*, Petronela Osacká
Department of Nursing, Jessenius Medical Faculty in Martin, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia

Aim: This project is aimed to find out the patient knowledge with asthma in the area of self-management of this disease and particularly the influence of the length of the disease on the knowledge level about self-management. At the same time we tried to find out the relation between the knowledge level of the asthma self-management and control of asthma disease.

Methods: The total number of 297 adult asthma patients were included in the cross sectional study. The valid instruments Asthma Control Test and Measuring asthma self management knowledge in adults were used for testing asthma control and the degree of patient knowledge in self management of asthma. The Chi-squared test and the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient were used for statistical processing of data.

Results: A total of 220 out of 279 respondents (74%) showed poor knowledge of self-management of asthma, particularly in "Knowledge of asthma treatment" domain and 191 patients in "Management of bronchial asthma" domain (64%). Patients who had been diagnosed one year ago had better level of knowledge in self-management of asthma than those who had been treated for asthma longer than six years (6-10 years). This difference was not significant, but it was related to those domains which has significant influence on asthma control (domains 2-5).

Conclusion: Poor knowledge of asthma patients, higher frequency of errors in self management and worse control of asthma in patients with asthma longer than six years imply the need for better and repeated education, check of patient knowledge and skills for self-management, use of peak flow meter included in this group of patients.

Keywords: bronchial asthma, patient knowledge, self-management, asthma control, education

Published: September 30, 2011  Show citation

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Dingová M, Osacká P. The patient knowledge of an asthma self-management. Ošetřovatelství a porodní asistence. 2011;2(4):303-311.
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