TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE IN ASTHMATIC PATIENTS.

Abstract

Introduction: Asthma is one of the commonly occurring diseases throughout the globe. It affects the people with all age clusters.It puts on a considerable encumbrance on subjects and their blood relatives. Generally, asthma inflicts a great social encumbrance in the relations of efficiency harmand source consumption rising commencing with deprived control of asthma. The prevalence of asthma is variable throughout the nations all over the globe. Objectives: To determine the frequency of adequate knowledge and positive attitude among the known asthma patients. Study Design: Cross sectional. Duration of Study: February 5, 2016 to August 4, 2016. Subjects and Method: Data was entered and analyzed through SPSS version 20. One hundred and thirty (130) patients were recruited from Out Patient Department of chest medicine JPMC on the basis of inclusion/exclusion criteria. An informed consent of the study population with the assurance to keep their information confidential was obtained to include their demographics in the study. Predesigned inquiry form containingconstituentsfor assessing the awareness and approachin asthma subjectsconcerning their illness would be given to eligible participant. A total of 14 questions were included in proforma, out of these 08 questions of knowledge and 6 questions for attitude. Adequate knowledge and positive attitude were labeled as per operation definition and were recorded on approved Performa. All the procedure was done by researcher himself. Results: In current study 130 subject’s wererecruited with age ranging between 18 to 60 years. The mean age of the subjectswere 37.32 ± 10.93 years, average duration of disease was 11.91 ± 8.95 years and duration of treatment was 7.99 ± 7.183 years. From 130 subjects, 55(42.3%) were male and 75(57.7%) were female. Adequate knowledge of Asthma was noted in 74(56.9%) subjects and positive attitude regarding Asthma was seen in 55(42.3%) subjects. Conclusion: In this study 74(56.9%) subjects had adequate knowledge and 55(42.3%) subjects had positive attitude. Persistent dedications are needed to have familiarity about the characteristics of asthma.Management of asthma patients and also to dissipate the traditions and misunderstanding related by illnesses and its treatment. It might assist subjects to take part in self managing strategies and improved controlling of the asthma.