The Effect of Asthma Education Given by Taking Health Literacy Into Account

Ege University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Child Health; Asthma Management; Asthma in Children; Nursing; Health Literacy

Treatments: Other: Delivery of booklets; Other: Asthma Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05618665

2018-05

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this randomized controlled trial was to examine the effect of education given to asthmatic children and their parents by taking health literacy into account on disease self-management.

The study was conducted with 88 children and their parents between October 2018 and July 2019. While education and booklets were given to both children and parents in intervention group 1, only the children were given the education and the booklets in intervention group 2. There was no intervention applied for the control group. Post-test was performed 3 weeks after the education and then follow-ups were carried out in the next three months over the phone.

Enrollment: 88 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Having asthma children with a physician diagnosis,
• Studying in one of the public primary schools in the district where the study was conducted,
• Using asthma medication,
• Having parents without any reading difficulties.

Exclusion criteria

• Being in the 1st grade in their school,
• Not using any medication for asthma,
• Having parents with reading difficulties.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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88 participants in 3 patient groups

Intervention Group - Children and parents

Experimental group

Description:

Asthma education which consisted of asthma disease, its symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, risk factors, use of medication, use of medication apparatus, vaccination treatment, follow-up of the asthmatic child, precautions to be taken in prevention, what to do during an attack, what to do for adaptation to the disease and things to do in school life was prepared and presented in 40 minutes. The booklets about education would be given at the end of the education.

Treatment:

Other: Delivery of booklets

Other: Asthma Education

Intervention Group - Children

Experimental group

Description:

Asthma education which consisted of asthma disease, its symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, risk factors, use of medication, use of medication apparatus, vaccination treatment, follow-up of the asthmatic child, precautions to be taken in prevention, what to do during an attack, what to do for adaptation to the disease and things to do in school life was prepared and presented in 40 minutes. The booklets about education would be given at the end of the education.

Treatment:

Other: Delivery of booklets

Other: Asthma Education

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention was applied to the control group.