`Plenty children got the wheeze these days': lay knowledge, beliefs and stated behaviours related to asthma in Barbados - abstract
West Indian med. j
; West Indian med. j;42(Suppl. 1): 37, Apr. 1993.
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ABSTRACT
Knowledge, beliefs, and practices related to the management of asthma were assessed among 143 parents of asthmatic children in Barbados. Nearly 54 per cent of the informants verbalized that the child could die during an asthmatic attack, and informants ranked asthma as the fourth most serious disease compared to 13 other illnesses. Preferred modes of treatment were compared for a sample of parents without asthmatic children (N = 34); parents of asthmatics were more likely to believe that asthma could be managed in the physician's office and at home with prescribed medications than parents without asthmatic children (t = 1.78; df = 67.0, equal variance; p = 0.08). Wealthy parents of asthmatics were more likely to use a private physician than poorer parents of asthmatics (F = 8.50; df = 3; p < 0.0001). Fewer than 10 per cent of the sample used traditional home remedies for asthma. Less than 76 per cent of the children with prescribed inhalers possessed them at all times. Minimal reliance on traditional home remedies, preference for treatment by professional physicians, and preference for a private physician when socio-economics allow, suggest that asthma is viewed as a contemporary illness best treated by professional health care deliverers. Findings from the disease ranking suggest that multi-media campaigns are effective in increasing community awareness and concern for managing specific illness (e.g. leptospirosis, cholera). Possession of a prescribed inhaler at all times by less than three-quarters of the sample population, in the face of a steady increase in asthma-related morbidity, emphasises the need for more aggressive patient and community education for the management of asthma (AU)
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Assunto principal:
Asma
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Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde
Limite:
Child
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Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Barbados
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Idioma:
En
Revista:
West Indian med. j
Ano de publicação:
1993
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Article
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Congress and conference