Abstract
Introduction: Allergies can cause complications such as inadequate nutrition, impaired sleep quality, and inhibition of child growth and development. There were about 15% children who suffered from dust allergies in 2017 in Indonesia. Parents lacking of knowledge about environmental control can increase the prevalence of allergic relapse in children. Counselling is a method of health education that aims to improve knowledge, and practice. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether counselling has any influence on allergic related knowledge and environmental control measures skills.Methods: The design of study was a pre-experiment design. There were 14 respondents in this study who were recruited at a university hospital based on inclusion criteria with consecutive sampling. The independent variable was counselling, the dependent variable were knowledge and environmental control measures. Data were collected using both a questionnaire was developed from the AAAAI and a check list was used to determine parents' skills on environmental controls. Data were analysed using Wilcoxon Sign Rank Test with significance level of α<0,05.Results: There was an influence of counselling on knowledge and environmental control measures (knowledge level, p= 0,001; practice level p= 0,001).Conclusion: It is concluded that counselling is significantly increased knowledge and environmental control measures level.
Highlights
Allergies can cause complications such as inadequate nutrition, impaired sleep quality, and inhibition of child growth and development
All respondents who had received information about environmental control came from other health education or 36% of the total respondents, and 1 respondent who accessed information about environmental control through the internet in addition to getting other health education or 7% of the total respondents
The pretest results revealed that the knowledge level of most of the 8 respondents scored less (57%) before being given counselling
Summary
Allergies can cause complications such as inadequate nutrition, impaired sleep quality, and inhibition of child growth and development. Parents lacking of knowledge about environmental control can increase the prevalence of allergic relapse in children. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether counselling has any influence on allergic related knowledge and environmental control measures skills. Conclusion: It is concluded that counselling is significantly increased knowledge and environmental control measures level. Knowledge of parents with children allergic to house dust mites in the Allergy Outpatient Room at the Airlangga University Hospital regarding environmental control to reduce the house dust mite population is still inadequate. Existing studies on environmental controls that have been carried out shows that the knowledge of parents with house dust mite allergic children on environmental control is still low, even in 2003 after being given health education only 50% of parents had good knowledge regarding environmental control
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