[An education programme of asthma in children]

ABSTRACT

In the aim to improve asthma management in children, we conduct an education programme including 22 children and their parents. All patients are under 15 years of age and at a stable state. They are ages between 3 and 15 years with a mean age of 6 years. The education teaching is in dialectal Arabic language. Giver information concerned physiopathology of asthma, anatomy of the airways, asthma attack symptoms, trigger and methods of their prevention, medication, delivery devices and practice of sport. By a direct and collective method, our education programme resulted in improvement of children and parent's knowledge on asthma and a reduction by half of acute episodes of asthma