Metaanalysis of impact of asthma education on asthma control / 中国药学杂志

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate systematically the impact of asthma education on asthma control. METHODS: To search Medline, Embase, CBMdisc, CNKI and Vip. The quality of included studies such as randomization, blinding and allocation concealment was evaluated and Metaanalysis was performed by RevMan 5.1 software. RESULTS: Eight randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were included. As education group was compared with control group, the Metaanalysis indicated that the asthma knowledge, day lost from work or study, ED attendence and the quality of life of education group was better than that of control group. But there were statistical difference in the asthma knowledge, day lost from work or study and the quality of life between education group and control group. CONCLUSION: According to the Metaanalysis's result, education is helpful to achieve good asthma control. It should be necessary to do high quality and large sample randomized controlled trials on health education of asthma, so that further stratified the analyses of asthma education can be carry out.