The Effect of Education Program on Knowledge, Self-Care Behavior and Quality of Life in Adults with Asthma in Out Patient Department of Phonthong Hospital

Abstract

Purposes : To study the effects of the teaching program on knowledge. Self-care behavior and quality of life of asthmatic patients Phon Thong Hospital Roi Et Province.

Study design : Quasi-Experimental research

Materials and methods : The sample group is asthma patients, who had previously been admitted to the emergency room with severe asthma symptoms and had been admitted to the hospital for treatment. Materials used in the experiment is an asthma teaching program and a self-care manual for asthma patients validity content accuracy by 5 experts and checking their confidence using the Kuder Richardson formula (KR-20, the confidence value of the knowledge test was .70. The self-care behavior questionnaire received the confidence value. It is equal to .80 on the Quality-of-Life Index Scale. Find confidence using Cronbach's alpha coefficient formula, equal to .84. Data were analyzed using frequency distribution, mean, percentage and used t-test statistics (Paired t-test).

Main findings : The results of the research found that the sample group after receiving the teaching program The mean knowledge score about asthma was 9.04 and the standard deviation was 1.02, higher than before receiving the teaching program,with a mean knowledge and understanding score about asthma of 6.92, a standard deviation of 1.73, a mean self-care behavior score of 18.08, a standard deviation of 1.99, which was higher than before receiving the teaching program. with a mean self-care behavior score of 13.04, a standard deviation of 1.81 and a mean quality of life score of asthma patients of 1,539.00, a standard deviation of 138.23, which was higher than before receiving the teaching program. with an average quality of life score for asthma patients of 1,200.04 standard deviation of 120.75 is statistically significant at the .001 level.

Conclusion and recommendations : The teaching program developed from this study should be applied in the asthma clinic Outpatient department. Because of this program can be changed flexibly. According to the context of the agency and the patient and organizing group activities.