A study to evaluate the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice for use of inhalation devices among asthma patients and COPD patients in a Tertiary-Care Teaching Hospital

• Dr.Ullas Balvantrai Gajera,*  
• Dr.Nishant Bhansali,  
• Dr.Kavita Dineshbhai Dhanani

Abstract

Introduction: Chronic respiratory diseases, such as asthma and COPD, are significant global health problems that affect people of all ages and socioeconomic groups. According to the WHO, CRDs are responsible for approximately 4 million deaths worldwide each year, with asthma and COPD accounting for the majority of these deaths. The study also found that patients who used inhalation devices had better disease control and quality of life than those who did . Methodology: An exit interview technique was adopted for data collection. The patients who exited from the OPD and who are asthma-COPD patients who had been using an inhaler were identified through diagnostic tests carried out. Regarding knowledge, the frequency of correct answers to each question was scored 1. The practice was examined by using the inhaler checklist. The performance of each of the steps of inhaler use was labelled as a correct inhalation technique if the respondent correctly performed each of the checklist steps. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: The recorded data was entered into Microsoft Excel and analysed using SPSS 26. The data was segregated category-wise, depending on asthma or COPD. We compared the responses of different categories of inhalation devices. The data was analysed using descriptive statistics. Frequencies and percentages were used to represent responses to the questions. RESULTS: Out of total of 90 responses recorded, 46.6% were COPD and 53.4% were Asthma patients. Overall knowledge of inhalation devices is 39.5% with the poorest question “How should you clean an inhalational device?” which is 28.9%. 48.9% of patients have attitude that they will not recommend inhalation device to other. The practice score for MDI is 58.8% and for rota haler 69.4% in patients. Conclusions: Proper knowledge and techniques for using inhalational devices are mandatory to control the disease. It can be achieved by educating patients and increasing awareness.

Keywords

COPD, ASTHMA, INHALATION-DEVICES,KAP

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