Maulood Karwan Bahram, Khan Mohammad, Syed Sulaiman Syed Azhar, Khan Amer Hayat
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Gelugor 11700, Malaysia.
School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kota Bharu 16150, Malaysia.
Healthcare (Basel). 2023 Jun 29;11(13):1886. doi: 10.3390/healthcare11131886.
Asthma causes chronic coughing, wheezing, dyspnea, and chest pressure. This study assessed asthmatic patients' knowledge, attitudes, and practice (KAP) of bronchial asthma and proper education on its meaning, risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, management, and prevention practices. We performed a cross-sectional interventional asthma KAP survey in Erbil, Iraq. We adapted a validated study questionnaire from KAP studies in other nations to the Erbil situation and culture. In Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq, two major hospitals' asthma clinics were studied. We chose 250 asthmatic patients from October 2018 to July 2019. Health education was comprehensive. The health education program used a Kurdish PowerPoint with a printout. Twenty-five groups received two weeks of one-hour health education pre-intervention. Each group was questioned before, 2 weeks after, and 12 weeks after health education. All data were analyzed by SPSS v26. The mean age of the respondents was 37.52 ± 15.16, with 48.7% of the respondents having a positive family history of asthma. After 2 weeks of health education intervention, respondents had a higher knowledge score and positive attitudes compared to pre-education, and after 12 weeks of education, there was a significant difference ( < 0.001) with improvised prevention practice. Health education programs led to considerable improvements in asthmatic patients' knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding their condition. After receiving health education for a period of two weeks, the majority of the participants answered correctly regarding asthma, its causes, and the elements that trigger asthma attacks.
哮喘会导致慢性咳嗽、喘息、呼吸困难和胸部压迫感。本研究评估了哮喘患者对支气管哮喘的知识、态度和实践（KAP），以及关于其含义、危险因素、症状、诊断、管理和预防措施的适当教育。我们在伊拉克埃尔比勒进行了一项横断面干预性哮喘KAP调查。我们将其他国家KAP研究中经过验证的调查问卷根据埃尔比勒的情况和文化进行了调整。在伊拉克库尔德斯坦的埃尔比勒，对两家主要医院的哮喘诊所进行了研究。我们在2018年10月至2019年7月期间选取了250名哮喘患者。健康教育是全面的。健康教育项目使用了带有打印件的库尔德语PowerPoint。25个小组在干预前接受了为期两周、每周一小时的健康教育。每个小组在健康教育前、健康教育后2周和健康教育后12周接受询问。所有数据均采用SPSS v26进行分析。受访者的平均年龄为37.52±15.16，48.7%的受访者有哮喘家族史阳性。经过两周的健康教育干预后，与教育前相比，受访者的知识得分更高且态度更积极，并且在接受12周教育后，在简易预防实践方面存在显著差异（<0.001）。健康教育项目使哮喘患者对自身病情的知识、态度和实践有了显著改善。在接受了两周的健康教育后，大多数参与者对哮喘及其病因以及引发哮喘发作的因素回答正确。
