title: [Exploring the knowledge of asthma, attitude and self-management behaviors of school age children with asthma in the Ping-Tung area].
abstract: The present correlational research was aimed at: exploring asthmatic children's knowledge of their disease, their attitude towards it, and their self-management behavior. Convenient sampling was used to recruit subjects. One hundred and sixty eight asthmatic children from 7 to 12 years old were recruited from 14 elementary schools in the Pintung area, Taiwan. The results showed: (1) a moderate-leveled standardized score of 57.26 for knowledge of the disease; a positive-leveled standardized score of 86.27 for attitude toward the disease; a moderate high-leveled standardized score of 69.34 for self-management behaviors; (2) no significant relationship between demographic information and self-management behavior; (3) a significant correlation between asthmatic knowledge and self-management behavior; (4) a significant correlation between attitude towards asthma and self-management behavior; and (5) knowledge of the disease and attitude towards the disease as important predictors of self-management behavior, together accounting for 23.9% of the total variance. Results of the present study could serve as a basis for future studies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Mei-Ho Institute of Technology, Taiwan, ROC.
authors.forename: Li-Chi
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Tzeng
authors.forename: Chi-Chun
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Chin
authors.forename: Ji-Yun
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D001249:Asthma / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012648:Self Care; D013624:Taiwan