ABSTRACT
Asthma is a common lung disease of childhood throughout the world. It may be regarded as a diffuse obstructive lung disease with hyper reactivity of the airway to a variety of stimuli Educating asthmatic children and their mothers about self-management skills including nebulizer, inhaler, and peak flow meter, breathing and coughing exercise help in controlling asthma. This study aims to improve the pediatric asthma outcomes by educating children and their mothers' self-management skills. The study was conducted at In-patient Pediatric Chest Unit at Tanta University Hospital Patients were followed up in the Outpatient Pediatric Chest Clinic of the same hospital A convenient sample of 80 asthmatic children and their mothers were included in the study. Three fools were used to collect the necessary data: two questionnaire sheets: one to obtain demographic data and history of asthma, the other to access mothers1 knowledge about asthma and an observation check list to measure the children's practices regarding self management skills. The program was carried out through four sessions. The results showed that children's, and their mothers' knowledge, practice and bronchial asthma outcome improved after the program. There were high statistical significant differences in using nebulizer, inhaler usage and cleaning peak flow meter before and after program. It is recommended to develop an asthma action plan with Instructions on when to change the medication plan and when to call for help. Developing a training program for the pediatric nurses is mandatory