Research Journal of Medical Sciences
ISSN: Online 1993-6095ISSN: Print 1815-9346
Abstract
Lack of knowledge and familiarity by children and their parents4 has caused many uncertainties, misuse, over dosages, simply diminished interest that often lead to uncontrolled asthma and eventually unnecessary hospitalization. Without doubt, education and proper demonstration are important components in long term asthma management. It offers knowledge in understanding the disease and selfmanagement skills in handling exacerbation of asthma at home. By providing importance of asthma education programmes in reducing morbidity and mortality. Data was collected from parents of asthmatic children aged between 4 years to 12 years, attending inpatient, outpatient services of Paediatrics department in Government General Hospital. In the current study, 60% of parents were believing that the etiology of asthma was Hereditary and only 1.43% parents were believing that the etiology of asthma was contagious. In our study, a significant proportion of parents were concerned about aerosol therapy. This has a negative impact on treatment adherence. In the current study, 87.14% children parents were had the knowledge aerosol treatment.
How to cite this article:
P. Ravindranath Reddy, Malikireddy Himabindu and Vasanthalaxmi . Knowledge, Attitude, Practices of Parents of Children with Asthma.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36478/10.59218/makrjms.2024.1.203.207
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