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A community-based cross-sectional study on knowledge, attitude, and perceptions about asthma among healthy adults in rural South India

BACKGROUND: Evidence suggests that proper knowledge and perceptions about asthma result in a positive correlation with compliance with medications and regular medical follow-up. Assessing the level of knowledge, attitude, and perception (KAP) in the community is essential for planning public health...

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Autores principales: Daniel, Jefferson, Inbaraj, Leeberk Raja, Jenkins, Sam, Ramamurthy, Prashant Hanumanthappa, Isaac, Rita
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Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8208207/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34195131
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2152_20
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author Daniel, Jefferson
Inbaraj, Leeberk Raja
Jenkins, Sam
Ramamurthy, Prashant Hanumanthappa
Isaac, Rita
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description BACKGROUND: Evidence suggests that proper knowledge and perceptions about asthma result in a positive correlation with compliance with medications and regular medical follow-up. Assessing the level of knowledge, attitude, and perception (KAP) in the community is essential for planning public health interventions. There is a lacuna on community-based KAP study on asthma in rural India, as most of the existing evidence is from hospital-based studies in an urban setting. METHODS: We interviewed 280 healthy adults from 14 villages in South India using the Chicago community asthma survey-32 (CCAS-32) questionnaire. We noted the frequency distribution of responses to the questions and scored KAP on symptoms, triggers, and treatment, and performed bivariate and multivariate analyses. RESULTS: The mean age was 37.7 years ranging from 18 to 62 years. Almost half of them (47%) had primary or middle school education. 40.7% and 57.9% believed severe headache and tightness of chest were symptoms of asthma, respectively. Similarly, 38.2% and 48.4% thought asthma was a hereditary and contagious disease, respectively, whereas 41.8% of perceived asthma medications could be addictive. Having witnessed “patients with asthma” was associated with KAP on symptoms and triggers while younger age and having a relative with asthma were associated with KAP on treatment independently. Participants who had relatives with asthma were three times [(OR 3.04; 95% (1.5–6.1)] more likely to have good KAP compared to their counterparts. CONCLUSION: Asthma knowledge and perceptions are sparse in rural India. Adequate investments in public awareness are the need of the hour.
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spelling pubmed-82082072021-06-29 A community-based cross-sectional study on knowledge, attitude, and perceptions about asthma among healthy adults in rural South India Daniel, Jefferson Inbaraj, Leeberk Raja Jenkins, Sam Ramamurthy, Prashant Hanumanthappa Isaac, Rita J Family Med Prim Care Original Article BACKGROUND: Evidence suggests that proper knowledge and perceptions about asthma result in a positive correlation with compliance with medications and regular medical follow-up. Assessing the level of knowledge, attitude, and perception (KAP) in the community is essential for planning public health interventions. There is a lacuna on community-based KAP study on asthma in rural India, as most of the existing evidence is from hospital-based studies in an urban setting. METHODS: We interviewed 280 healthy adults from 14 villages in South India using the Chicago community asthma survey-32 (CCAS-32) questionnaire. We noted the frequency distribution of responses to the questions and scored KAP on symptoms, triggers, and treatment, and performed bivariate and multivariate analyses. RESULTS: The mean age was 37.7 years ranging from 18 to 62 years. Almost half of them (47%) had primary or middle school education. 40.7% and 57.9% believed severe headache and tightness of chest were symptoms of asthma, respectively. Similarly, 38.2% and 48.4% thought asthma was a hereditary and contagious disease, respectively, whereas 41.8% of perceived asthma medications could be addictive. Having witnessed “patients with asthma” was associated with KAP on symptoms and triggers while younger age and having a relative with asthma were associated with KAP on treatment independently. Participants who had relatives with asthma were three times [(OR 3.04; 95% (1.5–6.1)] more likely to have good KAP compared to their counterparts. CONCLUSION: Asthma knowledge and perceptions are sparse in rural India. Adequate investments in public awareness are the need of the hour. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-05 2021-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8208207/ /pubmed/34195131 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2152_20 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Daniel, Jefferson
Inbaraj, Leeberk Raja
Jenkins, Sam
Ramamurthy, Prashant Hanumanthappa
Isaac, Rita
A community-based cross-sectional study on knowledge, attitude, and perceptions about asthma among healthy adults in rural South India
title A community-based cross-sectional study on knowledge, attitude, and perceptions about asthma among healthy adults in rural South India
title_full A community-based cross-sectional study on knowledge, attitude, and perceptions about asthma among healthy adults in rural South India
title_fullStr A community-based cross-sectional study on knowledge, attitude, and perceptions about asthma among healthy adults in rural South India
title_full_unstemmed A community-based cross-sectional study on knowledge, attitude, and perceptions about asthma among healthy adults in rural South India
title_short A community-based cross-sectional study on knowledge, attitude, and perceptions about asthma among healthy adults in rural South India
title_sort community-based cross-sectional study on knowledge, attitude, and perceptions about asthma among healthy adults in rural south india
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8208207/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34195131
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2152_20
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