Al-Khateeb Anas J, Al Khateeb Jamal M
Internal Medicine Department, Saint Michael's Medical Center, 111 Central Avenue, Newark, New Jersey 07102 USA.
Department of Counseling & Special Education, College of Education, University of Jordan, Queen Rania Street, Amman, 119942 Jordan.
Multidiscip Respir Med. 2015 Apr 15;10(1):15. doi: 10.1186/s40248-015-0011-6. eCollection 2015.
The importance of psychosocial factors in the management of bronchial asthma has long been recognized. This paper offers a review of research published in the English language related to psychosocial aspects of bronchial asthma in Arab countries. Several databases (PubMed, Science Direct, Springer Link, ERIC, and PsychInfo) were searched using the following keywords: bronchial asthma, Arab countries, Algiers, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine (West Bank, Gaza), Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Sudan, Somalia; United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Thirty-two studies were conducted in 9 Arab countries. Almost all studies found were published in the last fourteen years with an apparent increasing rate in the last five years. In descending order, these studies addressed: knowledge of and attitudes toward asthma, quality of life, behavioral and emotional problems and factors related to academic achievement. The main results of the studies reviewed were: (a) physicians', school staff's, and parents' knowledge of and attitudes toward asthma were generally unsatisfactory, (b) in-service asthma education programs significantly impacted parent and staff knowledge and attitudes, and asthma management practices, (c) quality of life in children and adolescents was significantly adversely affected by asthma, (d) asthma was a common cause of school absenteeism, and had a significant negative impact on academic achievement of students, and (e) students with asthma had significantly higher rates of behavioral and emotional difficulties compared to students without asthma. The paper concludes with a discussion about the implications of these results and a call for further research in this area.
心理社会因素在支气管哮喘管理中的重要性早已得到认可。本文综述了阿拉伯国家发表的与支气管哮喘心理社会方面相关的英文研究。使用以下关键词检索了几个数据库（PubMed、科学Direct、Springer Link、ERIC和PsychInfo）：支气管哮喘、阿拉伯国家、阿尔及尔、巴林、科摩罗、吉布提、埃及、伊拉克、约旦、科威特、黎巴嫩、利比亚、毛里塔尼亚、摩洛哥、阿曼、巴勒斯坦（约旦河西岸、加沙）、卡塔尔、沙特阿拉伯、叙利亚、突尼斯、苏丹、索马里；阿拉伯联合酋长国和也门。在9个阿拉伯国家进行了32项研究。几乎所有找到的研究都是在过去14年发表的，在过去5年中明显呈上升趋势。按降序排列，这些研究涉及：对哮喘的认识和态度、生活质量、行为和情感问题以及与学业成绩相关的因素。所综述研究的主要结果如下：（a）医生、学校工作人员和家长对哮喘的认识和态度总体上不尽人意；（b）在职哮喘教育项目对家长和工作人员的知识、态度以及哮喘管理实践有显著影响；（c）哮喘对儿童和青少年的生活质量有显著的不利影响；（d）哮喘是学校缺勤的常见原因，对学生的学业成绩有显著负面影响；（e）与没有哮喘的学生相比，患有哮喘的学生行为和情感困难的发生率显著更高。本文最后讨论了这些结果的影响，并呼吁在这一领域进行进一步研究。
