Table 7 Different answers to the knowledge of asthma between intervention group and control group
Intervention | Control | P value | |
|---|---|---|---|
group(n = 49) | group(n = 61) | ||
Basic pathology of asthma | 0.000 | ||
Bronchial hyper-responsiveness | 14.1% | 29.5% | |
Chronic inflammation | 75.7% | 57.2% | |
Allergic disease | 10.2% | 13.3% | |
The prevalence of asthma in China | NS | ||
Average of reported prevalence | 7.3% | 7.3% | |
Range of reported prevalence | 0.5–35.0% | 0.5–20.0% | |
Declared familiarity with asthma guidelines | 0.000 | ||
Not familiar with any | 5.8% | 16.3% | |
International guidelines, GINA | 38.6% | 22.5% | |
Chinese guidelines | 75.6% | 51.2% | |
Other guidelines | 22.1% | 9.8% | |
Knowledge for grading severity | 0.049 | ||
Well | 44.9% | 29.5% | |
Moderately | 14.3% | 24.6% | |
Poor | 26.5% | 23.0% | |
First-line prescribed medicine for mild asthma | 0.005 | ||
Combined beta2-agonists with corticosteroid | 44.3% | 34.7% | |
Beta2-agonists bronchodilators | 14.8% | 34.7% | |
Inhaled corticosteroids | 27.9% | 26.5% | |
Oral corticosteroids | 6.6% | 0.0% | |
Leukotriene modifiers | 4.9% | 0.0% | |
Are you using PEFM for follow up of your asthma patient? | NS | ||
Yes | 63.3% | 60.7% | |
No | 8.2% | 19.7% | |
Depends on the patients’ condition | 28.6% | 19.7% | |
Are you satisfied with the symptom control of your patients? | NS | ||
Satisfied | 10.2% | 4.9% | |
Basically satisfied | 85.7% | 85.2% | |
Dissatisfied | 4.1% | 9.8% | |
Do you use specific immunotherapy for allergic asthma? | 0.009 | ||
Never | 40.9% | 59.0% | |
Sometimes | 46.9% | 41.0% | |
Always | 12.2% | 0.0% | |
What’s the percent of patients who will fully follow your prescription? | NS | ||
91–100% | 4.1% | 4.9% | |
50–90% | 75.5% | 65.6% | |
10–49% | 20.4% | 26.2% | |
<10% | 0.0% | 3.3% | |
What do you think are the major reasons for the lack of adherence among patients? | NS | ||
Side effects related to therapy | 16.3% | 23.0% | |
Unawareness of the benefits for pharmacotherapy | 44.9% | 47.5% | |
Inconvenience | 6.1% | 11.5% | |
Cost for pharmacotherapy | 18.4% | 6.6% | |
Incorrect use of inhalation device | 8.2% | 11.5% | |
Do you think such training course for clinicians is useful? | NS | ||
Very useful | 100.0% | 98.4% | |
Maybe useful | 0.0% | 1.6% | |
Not necessary | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
Do you think patient education is necessary? | NS | ||
Quite necessary | 100.0% | 100.0% | |
Necessary | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
Not necessary | 0.0% | 0.0% | |