Abstract
Objective To investigate the impact of health education and standard treatments on the life quality of asthmatic children.Methods We conducted clinic treatments of 110 cases of asthmatic children lasting for 6 months,which were divided into standard treatment and health education group with 60 cases and group without standard treatment and health education with 50 cases.We emphasized the education management on cases in experimental group,which strictly obeyed the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) to formulate classified treatments as well as regular follow-up.Control group received the same treatments as experimental group yet without emphasizing health education about asthma on parents,which was accompanied with irregular follow-up.We compared the before-treatment and after-treatment life-quality and lung functions of asthmatic children.Moreover,we used Pediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (PAQLQ) to evaluate the before-treatment and after-treatment life quality of asthmatic children.Results After follow-up lasting for 6 months,the treatments of experiment group had obvious improvements (P ＜0.01).The improvements of peak expiratory flow (PEF) of lung function test and timed vital capacity of the first second (FEV1) of experimental group were also better than the improvements of these two metrics of control group (P ＜ 0.01).In addition,after 6 months,in both all dimensions of PAQLQ and total score,the differences between before and after treatment of experimental group were significant (P ＜ 0.01,P ＜ 0.05) ; and the differences between experimental group and control group were also significant in both all dimensions of PAQLQ score (12.4 ±2.1) and total score comparing to the control group (8.1 ±2.3),and the differences are also significant (t =2.5,P ＜ 0.01).Conclusions Health education and standard treatments significantly improved the life quality of asthmatic children with a good compliance of treatment and a low recurrence rate,which is worth of popularizing. Key words: Health education ; Asthma/therapy; Quality of life ; Child
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