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Knowledge, attitude and practices of parents of children with bronchial asthma coming to pediatrics department of Govt. Medical college / Rajindra hospital, Patiala | |
Pehal Goyal, Gursewak Singh Gill, Jaspreet Singh Virdi | |
Background: This study was conducted to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices of parents of children with bronchial asthma coming to department of government medical college/ Rajindra hospital, Patiala. Material and methods: In the present study, children of bronchial asthma attending out and in-patient services of Pediatrics department of RHP which is a tertiary care hospital were evaluated. Children with age group of 4-15 years with diagnosis of Bronchial Asthma were included in the study. Cases consisted of all the patients with diagnosis of Bronchial Asthma as defined below. Cases having other significant bronchopulmonary diseases associated with asthma, for example, tuberculosis, bronchiectasis, congenital respiratory malformations were excluded from the study. Results: Table 1 shows that majority of the patients i.e., 77 (51.33%) were aged between 6-10 years, followed by 39 (26%) aged between 11-15 years and 34 (22.67%) aged between 4-5 years. Mean age of the patients was 8.2±2.88 years. Table 2 shows that majority of the patients i.e.,86(57.33%) were males and 64(42.67%)patients were females. Table 3 shows that maximum number of patients i.e., 57 (38%) belonged to lower middle class, 54 (36%) belonged to upper lower class, 21 (14%) to upper middle class, 16 (10.67%) to lower class and only 2 (1.33%) belonged to upper class.Table 4 shows that majority of the patients i.e., 89 (59.33%) were from urban areas and 61 (40.67%) patients were from rural areas. Conclusion: The present study was conducted with the objective to access knowledge and attitude of parents towards bronchial asthma in their children, to study about practices followed by parents of children with bronchial asthma and to identify factors associated with parent knowledge, attitude and practices. |
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