ArticleBMC pulmonary medicine2019
Participation factors for asthma education programs - a cross sectional survey.
Article in BMC pulmonary medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- The impact of asthma education grounded in virtual reality technology upon the quality of life of pediatric patients with bronchial asthma.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- Autonomy preferences and behaviors towards asthma medication in online asthma education: a secondary analysis of a cluster randomized controlled trial in adults with asthma.European clinical respiratory journal · 2025Article
- Assessment Tools for Measuring Health Literacy and Digital Health Literacy in a Hospital Setting: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Incorporating Mixed Reality for Knowledge Retention in Physiology, Anatomy, Pathology, and Pharmacology Interdisciplinary Education: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Medical science educator · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundAlthough the impact of asthma education on important outcomes (e.g. emergency visits) has been well established, only an estimated quarter of asthma patients in Germany have received patient education yet. The aim of the study was to identify patient factors that could increase participation in asthma education programs.
methodsThis cross-sectional study investigated participation factors and differences between trained (n = 64) and untrained (n = 65) asthma patients from a large outpatient center in Germany. The survey included answers to asthma-related questions and open questions on patient education as well as such about knowledge of health literacy and eHealth.
resultsMean age of participants was 55 ± 19 years and 61% were female. Trained patients were more likely to participate in disease management programs (odds ratio (OR) 6.85; 95%CI 2.17-21.59), were more frequently non-smokers (OR 0.07; 95%CI 0.01-0.85) and more often had an asthma action plan (OR 20.2; 1.55-263.41). Open questions' analysis of untrained asthma patients revealed that patients felt they were not adequately informed about asthma education (37%). About one-third of all patients (27%) showed openness to online asthma education. Analysis of HL and eHealth showed no difference between the groups.
conclusionUntrained asthma patients should be informed even more intensively by their physicians about the importance and value of asthma education. Asthma education does not seem to benefit patients' health literacy. Online asthma education is of interest to approximately one-third of asthma patients. This should be motivation to develop and implement online asthma education concepts.
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