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Awareness regarding childhood asthma in Saudi Arabia

OBJECTIVE: Assessing the knowledge and awareness of the Saudi society about bronchial asthma in children. METHODS: Structured questionnaires were randomly distributed to 1039 Saudi Arabians in May 2014 at Jeddah, Riyadh, and Dammam. RESULTS: The awareness of bronchial asthma questions showed that 67...

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Autores principales: Al-Harbi, Saleh, Al-Harbi, Adel S., Al-Khorayyef, Abdullah, Al-Qwaiee, Mansour, Al-Shamarani, Abdullah, Al-Aslani, Wafa, Kamfar, Hayat, Felemban, Osama, Barzanji, Mohammed, Al-Harbi, Naser, Dhabab, Ruqaia, Al-Omari, Mohammed Ahmed, Yousef, Abdullah
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4748617/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26933459
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.173194
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author Al-Harbi, Saleh
Al-Harbi, Adel S.
Al-Khorayyef, Abdullah
Al-Qwaiee, Mansour
Al-Shamarani, Abdullah
Al-Aslani, Wafa
Kamfar, Hayat
Felemban, Osama
Barzanji, Mohammed
Al-Harbi, Naser
Dhabab, Ruqaia
Al-Omari, Mohammed Ahmed
Yousef, Abdullah
author_facet Al-Harbi, Saleh
Al-Harbi, Adel S.
Al-Khorayyef, Abdullah
Al-Qwaiee, Mansour
Al-Shamarani, Abdullah
Al-Aslani, Wafa
Kamfar, Hayat
Felemban, Osama
Barzanji, Mohammed
Al-Harbi, Naser
Dhabab, Ruqaia
Al-Omari, Mohammed Ahmed
Yousef, Abdullah
author_sort Al-Harbi, Saleh
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description OBJECTIVE: Assessing the knowledge and awareness of the Saudi society about bronchial asthma in children. METHODS: Structured questionnaires were randomly distributed to 1039 Saudi Arabians in May 2014 at Jeddah, Riyadh, and Dammam. RESULTS: The awareness of bronchial asthma questions showed that 67% of total sample thought that it could be a fatal disease, and only 13.2% thought that there is a difference between bronchial asthma and chest allergies in children. 86.1% thought that the symptoms of bronchial asthma include dyspnea and nocturnal cough, and 45.7% thought that fever, a runny nose and throat inflammation are not symptoms. 60.2% thought that infectious respiratory diseases may increase bronchial asthma progression. In addition, 40% thought that the use of antibiotics doesn’t help in diminishing bronchial asthma complications, and some thought that the patient can stop medication after an acute asthma attack. 34.1% thought that inhaled medication for asthma doesn’t cause addiction. Very highly significant results are shown between bronchial asthma knowledge and age, the level of education, marital status, and if the individual knows a person who suffers from bronchial asthma (P < 0.001). There are positive correlations between bronchial asthma knowledge and age, marital status, and level of education (r = 0.152, 0.150, 0.197), respectively. CONCLUSION: The study demonstrated that bronchial asthma knowledge in the Saudi Arabian population is insufficient, and efforts should be carried out to spread bronchial asthma management.
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spelling pubmed-47486172016-03-01 Awareness regarding childhood asthma in Saudi Arabia Al-Harbi, Saleh Al-Harbi, Adel S. Al-Khorayyef, Abdullah Al-Qwaiee, Mansour Al-Shamarani, Abdullah Al-Aslani, Wafa Kamfar, Hayat Felemban, Osama Barzanji, Mohammed Al-Harbi, Naser Dhabab, Ruqaia Al-Omari, Mohammed Ahmed Yousef, Abdullah Ann Thorac Med Original Article OBJECTIVE: Assessing the knowledge and awareness of the Saudi society about bronchial asthma in children. METHODS: Structured questionnaires were randomly distributed to 1039 Saudi Arabians in May 2014 at Jeddah, Riyadh, and Dammam. RESULTS: The awareness of bronchial asthma questions showed that 67% of total sample thought that it could be a fatal disease, and only 13.2% thought that there is a difference between bronchial asthma and chest allergies in children. 86.1% thought that the symptoms of bronchial asthma include dyspnea and nocturnal cough, and 45.7% thought that fever, a runny nose and throat inflammation are not symptoms. 60.2% thought that infectious respiratory diseases may increase bronchial asthma progression. In addition, 40% thought that the use of antibiotics doesn’t help in diminishing bronchial asthma complications, and some thought that the patient can stop medication after an acute asthma attack. 34.1% thought that inhaled medication for asthma doesn’t cause addiction. Very highly significant results are shown between bronchial asthma knowledge and age, the level of education, marital status, and if the individual knows a person who suffers from bronchial asthma (P < 0.001). There are positive correlations between bronchial asthma knowledge and age, marital status, and level of education (r = 0.152, 0.150, 0.197), respectively. CONCLUSION: The study demonstrated that bronchial asthma knowledge in the Saudi Arabian population is insufficient, and efforts should be carried out to spread bronchial asthma management. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4748617/ /pubmed/26933459 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.173194 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Annals of Thoracic Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Al-Harbi, Saleh
Al-Harbi, Adel S.
Al-Khorayyef, Abdullah
Al-Qwaiee, Mansour
Al-Shamarani, Abdullah
Al-Aslani, Wafa
Kamfar, Hayat
Felemban, Osama
Barzanji, Mohammed
Al-Harbi, Naser
Dhabab, Ruqaia
Al-Omari, Mohammed Ahmed
Yousef, Abdullah
Awareness regarding childhood asthma in Saudi Arabia
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title_full Awareness regarding childhood asthma in Saudi Arabia
title_fullStr Awareness regarding childhood asthma in Saudi Arabia
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title_short Awareness regarding childhood asthma in Saudi Arabia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4748617/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26933459
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.173194
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