The Effect of Education Program on Knowledge, Self-Care Behavior and Quality of Life in Asthma Patient at Phanomphrai Hospital, Roi Et province

Abstract

Purpose : The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of training  program on knowledge, self-care behaviors, and quality of life in asthma patient.

Design : Quasi-Experiment  Research

Materials and Methods : The samples were asthma patients over 15 years old, which exacerbation. The observational study was conducted from 1^st October 2019 to 30^th September 2020. The subjects were randomly assigned into experimental group (n= 20) The research instruments in this study consist of training program to enhance the patient’s knowledge of the asthma, and the questionnaires testing asthma knowledge. The reliability of the questionnaire was determined by Kuder Richardson (KR-20) which showed reliability of .70 The questionnaires of self-care behaviors. The reliability of the self-care questionnaires was determined showed reliability of .80  The Quality of Life Index that was determined the reliability by Cronbach’s Alpha Coefficient showed 0.84 The data was analyzed by using frequency, mean, percentage, standard deviation, and analyzed by SPSS for windows (Paired t-test) at a significant level .05

Main findings: The knowledge and understanding of the asthma, Self-care behaviors and Quality of Life Index of the experimental group after the training program was increased significantly (p< .001)

The knowledge mean score was increased 2.55 points (95% CI 1.81, 3.28),Self-care behaviors average score was increased 4.05 points (95% CI 2.94, 5.16)and the percentage of Quality of Life index was increased 16.30 points. (95% CI 12.86, 19.73)

Conclusion and recommendations: The findings suggest that after the training program the patients have improvements in the knowledge of asthma, self-care behaviors, and the Quality of Life Index. Hence, this program could be used in order to enhance the knowledge of asthma and to promote and improve the self-care behaviors.