Effectiveness of multimodal intervention programme on disease control and compliance to therapy regimen among children with bronchial asthma

Abstract

The present study was undertaken to determine the effectiveness of multimodal intervention programme on disease control and compliance to therapy regimen among children with bronchial asthma attending Institute of Child Health, Kottayam. The main objective of the study was to evaluate effectiveness of multimodal intervention programme on disease control and compliance to therapy regimen among children with bronchial asthma. A quasi experimental, one group pretest post test design was adopted for this study. The study was theoretically supported by Betty Neuman Systems model. The study was conducted among 40 children with bronchial asthma and their mothers selected by purposive sampling technique. Three tools were used to collect data and it includes socio personal and clinical data sheet, rating scale to assess asthma control and rating scale to assess compliance to therapy regimen. The data were collected over a period of six weeks and analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results of the study revealed that multimodal intervention programme had significant effect on improving disease control and compliance to therapy regimen among children with bronchial asthma. The study also revealed that there was moderate positive correlation (ρ = .56) between disease control and compliance with therapy regimen. Study concluded that multimodal intervention programme can effectively improve disease control and compliance to therapy regimen among children with bronchial asthma.