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ArticleAsthma research and practice2020

Determinants of Acute Asthma Attack among adult asthmatic patients visiting hospitals of Tigray, Ethiopia, 2019: case control study.

Melaku Negash, Hagos Tsegabrhan, Teklit Meles, Degena Bahrey Tadesse, Gebreamlak Gidey, Yemane Berhane, Kibrom Berhanu, Tsgalem Haylemaryam

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Article in Asthma research and practice, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Melaku Negash1Department of adult health nursing ,school of Nursing, Aksum University, Aksum, Ethiopia.
Hagos Tsegabrhan2Department of Psychiatric, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia.
Teklit MelesAdwa General Hospital, Adwa, Ethiopia.
Degena Bahrey Tadesse1Department of adult health nursing ,school of Nursing, Aksum University, Aksum, Ethiopia.
Gebreamlak Gidey4Department of midwifery, Aksum University, Aksum, Ethiopia.
Yemane Berhane5college of medicine and health science, Adigrat university, Adigrat, Ethiopia.
Kibrom Berhanu6Maternity and reproductive health nursing, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia.
Tsgalem Haylemaryam7Department of Emergency and critical care nursing, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia.
Aksum University · ETMekelle University · ETAdigrat University · ET

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionAcute asthma attack is one of the most common causes of visits to hospital emergency departments in all age groups of the population and accounts for the greater part of healthcare burden from the disease. Despite, Acute asthma attack is an important public health problem that affects not only the patients, but also to the family, health professionals, health care institutions and development of the nation, little is known about the risk factors of acute asthma attack.Therefore, this study is aimed to investigate the determinants of acute asthma attack among.

objectiveThe aim of this study was to assess the determinant factors of acute asthma attack among adult asthmatic patients visiting general hospitals of central zone, Tigray, Ethiopia, 2019.

methodHospital based unmatched case control study design was conducted in general hospitals of central zone of Tigray, Ethiopia 2019. Data were collected using pretested interviewer administered questionnaire. A total of 289 study subjects (96 cases &193 controls) were selected by systematic random sampling. Data were entered to Epi data version 3.1 then exported to SPSS version 23 for analysis. Bivariate logistic regression was employed to examine the statistical association between dependent and independent variables. Variables with

resultA total of 96 adult asthmatic patients who have acute asthma attack (cases) and 193 adult asthmatic patients without attack (controls)) with 100% response rate were participated in this study. Upper Respiratory tract Infection [AOR = 6.835,95% CI = 3.285,14.222], Season [AOR =2.204,95% CI = 1.011,4.805] kitchen smoke [AOR = 2.307,95%CI1.010,5.272]& sleep apnea [AOR = 9.254, 5%CI =3.563,25.460] were significantly associated with acute asthma exacerbation.

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