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An Exploratory Study to Assess the Knowledge and attitude of OPD patients Regarding Prevention and Management of Asthma in selected Hospitals, Ludhiana, Punjab.

Manvirpal Kaur, Amandeep Kaur, Amandeep Kaur, Amandep Kaur, Amanpreet Kaur, Avneet Kaur, Atinder Kaur, Beant Kaur, Diljit Kaur, Dilpreet Kaur, Gagandeep Kaur

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Introduction: The present study was conducted to assess the knowledge and attitude of OPD patients in all age groups regarding asthma in selected hospitals, Ludhiana, Punjab. The research was undertaken by medical–surgical nursing group in partial fulfillment of requirement for the post basic B.Sc. Nursing 2nd year of Baba Farid University of Health Science, Faridkot, Punjab. Objective: The objective of the study was to assess the knowledge of OPD patients regarding prevention and management of asthma, to assess the attitude of OPD patients regarding asthma, to find out the relationship between knowledge and attitude of OPD patients regarding asthma, to ascertain the relationship between knowledge of OPD patients regarding asthma with selected demographic variables such as age (in years), gender, educational status, habitat, type of family, occupational status, monthly family income and source of information. The conceptual framework was developed on the basis of pilot study. An exploratory approach was adopted for the study. Non-probability convenient sampling technique was used and 80 OPD patients were selected. The independent variables were age (in year), gender, educational status, habitat, type of family, occupational status, monthly family income and source of information. Dependent variables were knowledge and attitude of OPD patients. A self-structured questionnaire was prepared to assess the knowledge of OPD patients regarding prevention and management of asthma, and an attitude scale was prepared to assess the attitude of OPD patients regarding prevention and management of asthma. Descriptive and inferential statistics was used to analyze the data, and bar diagrams were used to depict the findings and interpreted data. Result: The following were the drawn findings of the study, i.e. knowledge of OPD patients regarding asthma. The findings of the study revealed that maximum 68 (85%) of OPD patients had average knowledge and minimum 1 (1.3%) had good knowledge score regarding prevention and management of asthma. The findings of the study revealed that maximum 61 (76.3%) were obtained by OPD patients had positive attitude and minimum 19 (23.8%) OPD patients had negative attitude regarding prevention and management of asthma. There was statistically non-significant relationship of the knowledge of OPD patients regarding prevention and management of asthma, i.e. age (in years), gender, habitat and sources of information. There was statistically non-significant relationship of attitude of OPD patients regarding asthma, i.e. age (in year), gender, educational status, habitat, occupational status, monthly family income and source of information.


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