Health-Promoting Lifestyle, Perceived Health Competence, Barriers to HealthPromotion, and Asthma-Related Knowledge in Persons with Chronic Asthma

摘要

The purpose of this descriptive study was: (1) to describe the health-promotingbehaviors, the barriers to health promotion, knowledge of asthma, and perceived health competence (self-efficacy) of persons with chronic asthma, and (2) to examine the relationships among knowledge of asthma, health-promoting lifestyle, barriers to health promotion, perceived health competence (self-efficacy), and health promoting behaviors and among gender, race, and asthma management site. A convenience sample of 68 patients who were seen at the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals at the Virginia Commonwealth University in either an advanced practice nurse-managed Asthma Clinic, Primary Care Clinic, or Emergency Department participated in this study. Participants completed the following five questionnaires: demographic data, Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP), Perceived Health Competence Scale, Barriers Scale, and the Asthma IQ test. Descriptive statistics t-tests, Pearson's correlational, and one-way analyses of variance (ANOVA) were used for data analysis.