PMID- 34900893
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220401
LR  - 20220531
IS  - 2296-2565 (Electronic)
IS  - 2296-2565 (Linking)
VI  - 9
DP  - 2021
TI  - Investigating the Outcomes of an Asthma Educational Program and Useful Influence 
      in Public Policy.
PG  - 736203
LID - 10.3389/fpubh.2021.736203 [doi]
LID - 736203
AB  - The study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of an asthma educational 
      program for asthma control, asthma self-management, asthma knowledge, and patient 
      activation. The study analyzes different demographic variables with the purpose 
      of investigating which asthma patients performed better than others. Based on 
      these demographic characteristics, the study provides several recommendations for 
      various stakeholders. The study is based on a positivist approach since its 
      purpose is to investigate the consequences of an asthma educational program with 
      a view to generalizing the results to a larger population. The study targets 
      public and private hospitals which have applied the asthma educational program in 
      collaboration with the Saudi Initiative for Asthma (SINA). Multiple 
      questionnaires were deployed 263 valid responses were received from patients of 
      public and private hospitals using online and offline data collection method. 
      Several parametric and non-parametric tests were carried out in terms of data 
      analysis. The results reveal that patients in the intervention group obtained 
      high scores and were therefore more knowledgeable and able to control their 
      asthma compared to the control group. Overall, patients in the intervention group 
      performed better in terms of asthma control, asthma self-management and knowledge 
      and awareness. There was a high level of patient activation in this group. In the 
      context of demographic features, it was found that patients who are married and 
      are undergraduate degree holders in employment scored high compared to patients 
      who were young, single, post-graduate degree holders that were mainly 
      self-employed. The results of this study can guide policy makers, SINA 
      authorities, and hospitals as to which demographic category of asthma patients 
      require immediate attention. The significance of asthma educational programmes 
      has increased especially through social media platforms as the number of adult 
      patients continues to increase day by day.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2021 Ghaleb Dailah.
FAU - Ghaleb Dailah, Hamad
AU  - Ghaleb Dailah H
AD  - Faculty of Nursing, Jazan University, Jizan, Saudi Arabia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20211126
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Front Public Health
JT  - Frontiers in public health
JID - 101616579
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - *Asthma/therapy
MH  - Health Behavior
MH  - Humans
MH  - Public Policy
MH  - Students
PMC - PMC8661094
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - education
OT  - gender
OT  - government
OT  - public health
OT  - public policy
OT  - social media
COIS- The author declares that the research was conducted in the absence of any 
      commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential 
      conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2021/12/14 06:00
MHDA- 2022/04/02 06:00
PMCR- 2021/11/26
CRDT- 2021/12/13 18:08
PHST- 2021/07/04 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/11/01 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/12/13 18:08 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/12/14 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/04/02 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/11/26 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.3389/fpubh.2021.736203 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Front Public Health. 2021 Nov 26;9:736203. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.736203. 
      eCollection 2021.