Volume 26, Issue 130, December 2022

Measuring the awareness of the family with asthmatic child about the care and prophylaxis of asthma in Unaizah city, Saudi Arabia

Ashraf Kamal^1♦, Amal Almutairi², Daad Fouly², Beshair Almansour², Njoud Almutairi², Rawan Almutairi², Raghad Alammari³, Shahad Alahmadi⁴, Younis Alharbi⁵

¹King Saud Hospital, Unaizah 56437, Saudi Arabia
²Unaizah College of Medicine, Qassim University, Unaizah 56437, Saudi Arabia
³College of Medicine, Almaarefa University, Riyadh 12211, Saudi Arabia
⁴College of Medicine, Alrayan Colleges, Madinah 42210, Saudi Arabia
⁵College of Medicine, Umm Alqura University, Makkah Almukarramah 24211, Saudi Arabia

^♦Corresponding author
King Saud Hospital, Unaizah 56437, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Background: The management of asthmatic children and how the family response in this regard is highly affected by several factors, primarily the parent’s knowledge and attitude toward the disease. Objective: The aim is to evaluate the knowledge and the awareness of the family with a child of asthma from Unaizah, Al-Qassim region regarding asthma. Methods: Our study is a crosssectional survey that is conducted in King Saud Hospital, the only secondary hospital in the area, in Unaizah city. Through a period of three months; from July till September 2022. Results: We concluded that a higher awareness score was associated with being a mother as a caregiver of a one child in the family with atopic/chronic illness or disabilities child with, having a child diagnosed with atopic/chronic diseases or other disabilities and having more than. Conclusion: This emphasis of this study is to help improving the asthma care and compliance, by way of the medical community that can be helpful in providing the proper education and guidelines also to conduct awareness events.

Keywords: Asthma, asthma control, asthma knowledge, children, Saudi Arabia.

Medical Science, 2022, 26, ms515e2597

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v26i130/ms515e2597

Published: 08 December 2022