Primary Schoolteachers' Knowledge of Asthma: The Impact of Pharmacist Intervention

Bell, Heather; McElnay, James; Hughes, Carmel; Gleadhill, I.

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“…It is recommended that teachers be taught about these signs and symptoms as way of realizing early on a student may be in need of medical assistance. Furthermore, consistent with prior research (18, 33), teachers did not understand the relationship between exercise and medication. Among those who knew exercise triggered asthma, few knew that medication taken prior to exercise prevents symptoms and under these circumstances students with asthma need not avoid exercise.…”

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Asthma Knowledge and Asthma Management Behavior in Urban Elementary School Teachers

Bruzzese¹,

Unikel²,

Evans³

et al. 2010

Journal of Asthma

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BACKGROUND While schools are an important setting for asthma care in youth, teachers’ asthma knowledge and symptom management is poor. This study investigated the knowledge, prevention and management behaviors, and communication regarding asthma of teachers of low income ethnic minority students. It was hypothesized that relative to colleagues whose students did not have active asthma (i.e., did not have symptoms during the day), teachers of students with active asthma would have better asthma knowledge and that more would take asthma prevention steps and communicate with parents and school nurses. METHODS Drawing from 25 elementary schools in NYC, 320 Pre-Kindergarten through 5th grade classroom teachers with at least one student with asthma completed measures assessing their asthma knowledge, steps taken to manage asthma, communication with the school nurse or parents, information they received about asthma and whether or not they had at least one student in their class experience asthma symptoms. T-test and chi-square were used to test hypotheses. RESULTS Asthma knowledge varied among teachers. Most could identify potential triggers, yet few knew that medication taken prior to exercise could prevent symptoms and that students with asthma need not avoid exercise. Communication between teachers and school nurses and between teachers and parents was lacking. Relative to colleagues whose students did not have active asthma, teachers whose students had active asthma had better asthma knowledge; more took steps to prevent students from having asthma symptoms, communicated with parents and initiated communication with the nurse. CONCLUSIONS Teacher knowledge about asthma and asthma management is limited, especially among those whose students did not have active asthma. Teachers respond reactively to students who have symptoms in class by increasing prevention steps and communications with parents and the school nurse. A more proactive approach to managing asthma in schools is warranted.

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Asthma Knowledge and Asthma Management Behavior in Urban Elementary School Teachers

Bruzzese¹,

Unikel²,

Evans³

et al. 2010

Journal of Asthma

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“…In another study, only 50% of teachers in Ireland could identify two asthma exacerbating factors. (11) In a study carried out in South Africa, (6) most teachers identified smoke, chalk dust, and common colds as exacerbating factors for asthma among schoolchildren It was expected that teachers who had previous experience as students` health guide should have better knowledge regarding different diseases than others. However, in the present study this finding was not confirmed, most probably due to a small size of teachers recruited in this study.…”

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The Impact of Health Education Intervention on Knowledge and Perception of Female Primary School Teachers About First Aid of Asthma Exacerbation Among Primary School Children in Makkah Al-Mokarramah City, 2016.

Mujallid¹,

Saleh²

2017

IJAR

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“…Other studies have shown an improvement in asthma knowledge and management due to pharmacist's intervention [5][6][7][8]. In yet another study conducted to assess the level of knowledge of bronchial asthma by primary healthcare physicians serving a rural population on the Island of Crete, both before and immediately after a one -day educational course, Rothivis et al demonstrated the success of continuing medical education and affirmed that recent graduates in the studied population could be educated with more positive results than the fully qualified practitioners [4].…”

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Assessing the knowledge of asthma among community pharmacists in Edo state

Odili¹,

Ajayi²

2010

Int J Health Res

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an online international journal allowing free unlimited access to abstract and full-text of published articles. The journal is devoted to the promotion of health sciences and related disciplines (including medicine, pharmacy, nursing, biotechnology, cell and molecular biology, and related engineering fields). It seeks particularly (but not exclusively) to encourage multidisciplinary research and collaboration among scientists, the industry and the healthcare professionals. It will also provide an international forum for the communication and evaluation of data, methods and findings in health sciences and related disciplines. The journal welcomes original research papers, reviews and case reports on current topics of special interest and relevance. All manuscripts will be subject to rapid peer review. Those of high quality (not previously published and not under consideration for publication) will be published without delay. The maximum length of manuscripts should normally be 10,000 words (20 single-spaced typewritten pages) for review, 6,000 words for research articles, 3,000 for technical notes, case reports, commentaries and short communications. Submission of Manuscript:The International Journal of Health Research uses a journal management software to allow authors track the changes to their submission. All manuscripts must be in MS Word and in English and should be submitted online at http://www.ijhr.org. Authors who do not want to submit online or cannot submit online should send their manuscript by e-mail attachment (in single file) to the editorial office below. Submission of a manuscript is an indication that the content has not been published or under consideration for publication elsewhere. Authors may submit the names of expert reviewers or those they do not want to review their papers. Enquiries Abstract Purpose:To assess the knowledge of community pharmacists about asthma and its management. Methods: Seventy-six registered community pharmacists in Edo State completed a structured questionnaire consisting of open and close ended questions which addressed issues relating to their knowledge of asthma Results: The mean knowledge score of the pharmacists was 8.04±1.79 over a maximum possible score of 14 (range of 4 to 14) corresponding to 57.4% which was thought to be average performance. Respondents performed best in issues relating to the definition of asthma and recognizing the features of asthma symptoms while areas of knowledge deficiency included recognizing the main symptoms of asthma, factors that can cause asthmatic attacks and the proper mode of delivering asthma medications. The knowledge of the respondents was unrelated to gender, age, additional qualifications and location of their premises. Pharmacists who had received a recent training on asthma had statistically significant higher scores (p=0.04). Cconclusion: The knowledge of asthma by the community pharmacists surveyed was average. These results bring into focus the need for community pharmacists to undergo continuing professional edu...

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Primary Schoolteachers' Knowledge of Asthma: The Impact of Pharmacist Intervention

Cited by 23 publications

References 7 publications

Asthma Knowledge and Asthma Management Behavior in Urban Elementary School Teachers

Asthma Knowledge and Asthma Management Behavior in Urban Elementary School Teachers

The Impact of Health Education Intervention on Knowledge and Perception of Female Primary School Teachers About First Aid of Asthma Exacerbation Among Primary School Children in Makkah Al-Mokarramah City, 2016.

Assessing the knowledge of asthma among community pharmacists in Edo state

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