Explanatory models held by bronchial asthma patients

ABSTRACT

The different aspects of asthma as a disease have cultural interpretations that may make nursing intervention ethnologically different. Those aspects were investigated with discrepancies between male and female Egyptian subjects with asthma. A convenience sample of 55 subjects were queried by nurse interviewers. Data analysis showed uniqueness and similarity with some other universal Eastern and western cultures and significant and insignificant differences between the studied males and females. The study recommends that ethnic variations be considered in nursing history, intervention and teaching