Assessing the knowledge of patient to the causes of asthma

Abstract

A felid study aims to assess the knowledge of patient to the causes of asthma , The sample includes of(70) patients (male & female ) who infected with asthma , chose randomly from the out patient department of Baghdad Hospital Teaching. The information's are gathered by interviewing of with the patient and answered the questionnaire, and the data were analyzed by using the frequency, ratio and chi-square. The result : the majority of sample are males (52.9%) most patient are at age of (21-30) years (32,9%), it shows that (34.3%) of sample have secondary school level of education,(60%) of them have smoking habit at home, also the result reveled that (58.6%) have family history of asthma, during winter season (75,7%) has increased attacks of asthma , exposure to animals hair not affect the rate of asthmatic attacks (62,9%).The study also reveled that there is no relation between educational level & .knowledge about asthma in those patient, X2=(5.448),and this is against the previous study . The study recommends the importance of educational health of public about precipitating factors affecting asthma, and the danger of smoking especially at home, and the need of more expanded study on large sample .