Khả năng tự quản lý cơn hen ở trẻ em lứa tuổi học đường tại Bệnh viện Trung ương Huế

A descriptive predictive cross-sectional study was used on sample included 91 Vietnamese school-age children who came to the Outpatient department of the Hue central hospital to follow up treatment for asthma. Data were collected from March 2017 to October 2017. Research instruments included a demographic questionnaire, the asthma self-management inventory for children, the severity of illness scale for asthma, and the social support questionnaire for children. Internal consistency reliabilities were 0.84, 0.83 and 0,89 respectively. Data were analysis by using the spss 17 program Results Results showed that mean total score of self-management was 46.37 (S.D. = 5.66), which was at a moderate approaching to high level. Child gender (boys) was the best predictor accounted for 28.3% in the prediction of self-management (B= -5.765, p<0.001), followed by severity of illness (B=-0.456, p<0.001) and social support B= 0.059, p<0.05) accounted for 16.2% and 4.3%, respectively. The three significant predictors accounted for 48.8 % of variance in asthma self-management of Vietnamese school age children (F 3, 87 = 22.121, p<0.001).