Effects of Supportive Education Programon Self - Care Behaviors Among Uncontrolled Asthma Patients

Abstract

This pretest-posttest quasi experimental research waspurposed to the effects of supportive education program on self - care behaviors among uncontrolled asthma patients. Sixty subjects were purposively selected which were discontrolled asthma patients who received treatment at Phichai hospital. The sample wasdivided into experimental and control group each group composed of 30 patients. The experimental group received the supportive education program, nursing care consisted of teaching, guiding, supporting and providing a suitable environmentfor 12 weeks while the control group received the conventional nursing care. The tools was used in thiscomposed of supportive education program, demographic data record form andtheself-care behavior questionnaire which The reliability of Thequestionnaire was 0.8 using Cronbach’s alpha coefficient. The data were analyzed by using percentile, mean, standard deviation, Paired t-test and Independent t-test. The finding showed thatbehavioral self-care average scoresof theexperimental group after participating in the supportive education program were significantly higher than before participating in supportive education program (p < .05). The behavioralself-care average score of theexperimental group after participating inthe programwere significantly higher than that of control group (p < .05). This study indicated that supportive education program on self-care behaviors among uncontrolled asthma patients was useful to improvingself-care behaviors and could be implemented to take care of asthma patients.