Situación de los conocimientos, las actitudes y la calidad de vida en asma de adolescentes y profesorado.Necesidad de educar en los centros de enseñanza
- Manuel Praena Crespo
- J. C. Fernández-Truan
- Nieves Aquino Llinares
- Alfonso Murillo Fuentes
- A. Sánchez Sánchez
- Javier Gálvez González
- L. Castro Gómez
- José Manuel Cenizo Benjumea
ISSN: 1695-4033
Year of publication: 2012
Volume: 77
Issue: 4
Pages: 226-235
Type: Article
More publications in: Anales de Pediatría: Publicación Oficial de la Asociación Española de Pediatría ( AEP )
Metrics
JCR (Journal Impact Factor)
- Year 2012
- Journal Impact Factor: 0.867
- Journal Impact Factor without self cites: 0.615
- Article influence score: 0.137
- Best Quartile: Q3
- Area: PEDIATRICS Quartile: Q3 Rank in area: 91/122 (Ranking edition: SCIE)
SCImago Journal Rank
- Year 2012
- SJR Journal Impact: 0.268
- Best Quartile: Q3
- Area: Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health Quartile: Q3 Rank in area: 159/286
Scopus CiteScore
- Year 2012
- CiteScore of the Journal : 1.4
- Area: Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health Percentile: 43
- Area: Medicine (all) Percentile: 36
Abstract
Introduction: Knowledge and attitudes toward asthma can condition the integration of adolescents with asthma in school and affect their quality of life. Our objective was to determine the state of knowledge, attitudes on asthma in secondary schools, and its relationship to quality of life of pupils with asthma, as an early step to an educational intervention. Methods: Descriptive and cross-sectional study of pupils aged 13 and 14 years old and their teachers in 26 schools of Seville and province. We used, as study tools, the Newcastle Asthma Knowledge Questionnaire, the Gibson attitudes towards asthma, and the Paediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire. To assess the normality of variables, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used, and for nonparametric variables the U Mann-Whitney and W Wilcoxon tests were used. For the association between variables, we use the regression coef?cients and rho Spearman. Results: We studied 3827 pupils (279 with asthma) and 548 teachers. All had little knowledge about asthma. The quality of life in asthma was mild to moderately affected, and lower in girls, 5.38 ± 1.08 (95% CI = 5.20 to 5.55) than in boys 5.77 (± 1.18) (95% CI = 5.56 to 5.97), P=.0000. We found no relationship between knowledge, attitudes and quality of life in asthma. Conclusions: We found a low level of knowledge about asthma in pupils and teacher. Asthma sufferers have a mild to moderate asthma quality of life, which is worse for girls. Knowledge has no relationship with attitudes to asthma in all groups, or with the quality of life of asthma sufferers