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Description:
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The purposes of this study are to examine the relationship of self -efficacy
regarding self -management of asthma and student self -management knowledge and also
examine the extent to which self -efficacy and self -management knowledge predicts
student outcomes such as reading grades , the number of times a student was absent and
the number of visits a student made to the school nurse . Students were sampled from
one public school district within a suburban city in the southwest portion of the United
States . The sample was comprised of 33 males and 12 females ranging in age from six
to eleven years of age .
Three data collection instruments were developed for this study . Parents of the
participants were asked to fill out a demographic survey to provide descriptive data .
Participants of the study were administered two face -to -face interview surveys : The
Asthma Student Self -Management Knowledge in a School Setting Survey (SMS ) and the Asthma Self -Efficacy of Self -Management of Asthma Survey (AMES ) . Both surveys
were developed based on the six lesson topics of Open Airways .
Two separate data analyses were conducted based on the data collected from
each participant . To better understand the relationship between the AMES and the SMS ,
a Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used in the regression analysis .
The findings showed that there was a statistically significant positive relationship
between the SMS and the AMES . To determine if the AMES and the SMS could predict
reading grades , the number of times a student was absent and the number of visits a
student made to the school nurse , a multiple linear regression was used . The findings
showed that there is minimal evidence showing that only reading scores maybe predicted
by asthma self -efficacy and asthma self -management knowledge .
Taking into account identified limitations such as not taking into account the
severity of the participant ? ?s asthma , one would be cautious to generalize these findings
to other children with asthma . Based on these results and limitations , recommendations
for future practice and for future research are provided . |