Volume 26, Issue 119, January 2022

The level of awareness regarding bronchial asthma among Riyadh population

Amar Fathi M Khalifah¹, Yazan Abdullah Alansari^2♦, Abdulaziz Ibrahim Alhonaizil², Abdulaziz Ibrahim Alsadhan², Naif Abdulmohsen Almujalli², Saleh Emad Abu-Alreesh², Yaser Saleh Alkraidis², Ahmed Khalid Alghamdi², Mohammed Saud Alsharif²

¹Assisstant professor, community Medicine, WHO consultant, college of Medicine Al Maarefa University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Email: Akhalifah@mcst.edu.sa
²Medical Intern, college of Medicine AL Maarefa university, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

^♦Corresponding author
Medical Intern, college of Medicine AL Maarefa university, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Background: bronchial asthma is a long-standing disease which results from airway inflammation and hyper responsiveness. Methodology: this is a cross-sectional study which was conducted in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It included 175 participants, using a convenient sampling technique. A Self-administered, pre-coded, and pre-tested questionnaire was used. The collected data was reviewed and statistically analyzed by using SPSS version 23 and P=Value of 0.05 or less is considered significant. Results: 66.3% of participants were females, and majority of the participants were in the age group of 18-30. 58.3% of participants had a moderate level of awareness regarding bronchial asthma. It also showed that 46.3% had moderate levels and 44.6% had high-level regarding triggering factors. 60% and 54.3% had high levels regarding complications and symptoms respectively. Only 21.7% of respondents were asthmatic. Conclusion: most of the responses showed moderate level of awareness regarding bronchial asthma. There was a significant statistical relationship between gender and the level of awareness regarding complications of bronchial asthma, and the relation between male and female regarding symptoms of bronchial asthma.

Keywords: Bronchial, Asthma, Awareness, Broncho constriction, Riyadh

Medical Science, 2022, 26, ms13e2037

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v26i119/ms13e2037

Published: 7 January 2022