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The efficient use of smartphone apps to improve the level of asthma knowledge

Patient education is one of the important aspects of improving knowledge and quality of asthma control. In this digital era, it can be made with the support of an app – or known as mHealth. Unfortunately, implementing applications for patient education is relatively new among asthmatic patients in I...

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Autores principales: Ghozali, Muhammad Thesa, Satibi, Satibi, Ikawati, Zullies, Lazuardi, Lutfan
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Publicado: Carol Davila University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9262265/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35815086
http://dx.doi.org/10.25122/jml-2021-0367
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author Ghozali, Muhammad Thesa
Satibi, Satibi
Ikawati, Zullies
Lazuardi, Lutfan
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description Patient education is one of the important aspects of improving knowledge and quality of asthma control. In this digital era, it can be made with the support of an app – or known as mHealth. Unfortunately, implementing applications for patient education is relatively new among asthmatic patients in Indonesia. This study aimed to determine the efficacy of the educational content of the AsmaDroid® app on the levels of asthma knowledge among asthmatic patients. This study was a randomized controlled trial carried out from December 2019 to March 2020 in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. A quota sampling was employed, resulting in 140 study participants being categorized into control and treatment groups. Before and after the 4-week treatment period, all participants were asked to complete a pre-test and post-test of the Asthma General Knowledge Questionnaire for Adults (AGKQA) questionnaire. All the scores were then compared to determine the efficacy of educational content on the levels of asthma knowledge. The results of descriptive statistics reported that the pretest scores of AGKQA from the control group (minimum, maximum, and mean) were 9, 25, and 19.04±2.56, respectively, and post-test scores were 10, 27, and 18.79±3.59 (p=0.47). Meanwhile, in the treatment group, these were 13, 25, and 19.11±2.87, while post-test scores were 16, 31, 23.6±3.95 (p=0.01). Additionally, there was a difference between the post-test scores of the control and treatment groups, namely 4.81 (p=0.01). The educational content of the app significantly improved the levels of asthma knowledge.
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spelling pubmed-92622652022-07-08 The efficient use of smartphone apps to improve the level of asthma knowledge Ghozali, Muhammad Thesa Satibi, Satibi Ikawati, Zullies Lazuardi, Lutfan J Med Life Original Article Patient education is one of the important aspects of improving knowledge and quality of asthma control. In this digital era, it can be made with the support of an app – or known as mHealth. Unfortunately, implementing applications for patient education is relatively new among asthmatic patients in Indonesia. This study aimed to determine the efficacy of the educational content of the AsmaDroid® app on the levels of asthma knowledge among asthmatic patients. This study was a randomized controlled trial carried out from December 2019 to March 2020 in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. A quota sampling was employed, resulting in 140 study participants being categorized into control and treatment groups. Before and after the 4-week treatment period, all participants were asked to complete a pre-test and post-test of the Asthma General Knowledge Questionnaire for Adults (AGKQA) questionnaire. All the scores were then compared to determine the efficacy of educational content on the levels of asthma knowledge. The results of descriptive statistics reported that the pretest scores of AGKQA from the control group (minimum, maximum, and mean) were 9, 25, and 19.04±2.56, respectively, and post-test scores were 10, 27, and 18.79±3.59 (p=0.47). Meanwhile, in the treatment group, these were 13, 25, and 19.11±2.87, while post-test scores were 16, 31, 23.6±3.95 (p=0.01). Additionally, there was a difference between the post-test scores of the control and treatment groups, namely 4.81 (p=0.01). The educational content of the app significantly improved the levels of asthma knowledge. Carol Davila University Press 2022-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9262265/ /pubmed/35815086 http://dx.doi.org/10.25122/jml-2021-0367 Text en © 2022 JOURNAL of MEDICINE and LIFE https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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