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Asthma knowledge in hospital patients with acute severe asthma
Author(s) -
Batty Kevin T,
Gardiner Fiona S,
Kendall Peter A
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1994.tb125865.x
Subject(s) - asthma , medicine , bronchodilator , acute severe asthma , emergency medicine , pediatrics , intensive care medicine , physical therapy , respiratory disease , lung
Objectives To assess patient knowledge about asthma management and to assess the risk of asthma‐associated morbidity in patients admitted to hospital with acute severe asthma. Subjects and setting Patients admitted to Fremantle Hospital with a primary diagnosis of acute severe asthma from July to September 1992. Results Bronchodilator therapy had been used for more than 12 months by all 25 previously diagnosed asthmatics, with 88% knowing that the drug was a bronchodilator. Corticosteroid therapy had been used by 84% of patients but only 52% of these knew that it was anti‐inflammatory or “preventive” medication. Sixty per cent of patients did not recall seeing National Asthma Campaign advertisements. Twenty‐three patients (88%) were classified as being at high risk of morbidity. Conclusions The level of knowledge about asthma management in patients admitted to this hospital is poor. Most patients are at high risk of asthma‐associated morbidity.