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- Title
Sleep Disturbances and Self-Management among Adolescents with Nocturnal Asthma in Al-Najaf City.
- Authors
Hadi Al- Abayechi, Doaa Ghaleb; Khudair, Fatima Wanas; AL-Dujaili, Arafat Hussain
- Abstract
Self-management improves quality of life among adolescents with nocturnal asthma. This study aimed to identify sleep disturbances and self-managements regarding asthmatic attack among adolescents with nocturnal asthma. Therefore, a cross sectional study was conducted at the Emergency Department in Al- Najaf, during the period October 15th 2017 to September 18th 2018. The study included 100 adolescents with nocturnal asthma who met the inclusion criteria, a pre-structured validated questionnaire was used, including demographic information, sleep disturbances variables and self-managements questionnaire. Data were managed and analyzed using the statistical package for social sciences software version 25 and appropriate statistical tests were applied accordingly. The findings revealed that (66.6%) of patients had moderate and (30%) had severe sleep disturbances. Also, (77.7%) of patients had a poor and (22.2%) had fair self-management. It had been significantly found that females were less aware for self-management, (P<0.05), other characteristics showed no significant association, (P>0.05). In conclusion, an evidence of sleep disturbances among the adolescents that result from asthmatic attack during the night. Deficit knowledge regarding self-management of asthmatic attack and other female gender can contributed to such attacks.
- Subjects
NAJAF (Iraq); TEENAGERS; SLEEP
- Publication
Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development, 2019, Vol 10, Issue 2, p429
- ISSN
0976-0245
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5958/0976-5506.2019.00328.0