The Effects of an Asthma Management Education Program for Preschoolers

Yim, Soyoun

doi:10.4040/jkan.2014.44.2.189

J Korean Acad Nurs. 2014 Apr;44(2):189-197. Korean.
Published online Apr 30, 2014.
https://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.2014.44.2.189

Original Article

The Effects of an Asthma Management Education Program for Preschoolers

Soyoun Yim

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- Department of Nursing Science, The Baekseok University, Cheonan, Korea.
Address reprint requests to: Yim, Soyoun. Department of Nursing Science, The Baekseok University, 76 Munam-ro, Dongnam-gu, Cheonan 330-704, Korea. Tel: +82-41-550-0722, Fax: +82-41-550-2829, Email: ysybest@bu.ac.kr

Received November 05, 2013; Revised November 19, 2013; Accepted March 05, 2014.

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Abstract

Purpose

This study was conducted to develop an asthma management education program for preschool children using Roy's adaptation theory as a framework and examining the effects of this program on adaptation to asthma treatment.

Methods

A non-equivalent control group pre-post-test design was used with 43 preschool children diagnosed with asthma and required to be hospitalized for inhalation therapy. An intervention group (n=23) participated in the educational program and a control group (n=20) received regular treatment. The education program was conducted and evaluated from June 30 to October 31 2012, a maximum 3 times every 24 hours during hospitalization. Two nurses conducted the program using the teaching method of Gagné and Briggs; instruction design theory through questionnaires to measure perception of disease, behavior of adaptation to treatment with inhalation therapy.

Results

Effects of asthma management education program; scores for face-pain rating decreased and time of adaptation to treatment increased significantly in the experimental group compared to the control group but no significant differences were found for perception of the disease's cause and treatment.

Conclusion

Results indicate that the asthma management education program has positive effects on adaptation to asthma treatment of preschoolers.

Keywords

Asthma; Child; Education

Figures

Figure 1
Theoretical framework.

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Tables

Table 1
Gagné and Briggs's Nine Levels of Learning Steps

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Table 2
General Characteristics and Homogeneity of Experimental and Control Groups (N=43)

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Table 3
Comparison between Experimental Group and Control Group for Perception of Disease, Treatment-Adaptation Behavior (N=43)

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Notes

This manuscript is a condensed form of the first author's doctoral dissertation from The Ewha Womans University of Korea.

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