Sleep Disturbances and Self-Management among Adolescents with Nocturnal Asthma in Al-Najaf City Al-Abayechi Doaa Ghaleb Hadi1,*, Khudair Fatima Wanas2, AL-Dujaili Arafat Hussain3 1Department of Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, University of Kufa, Iraq 2Assistant Prof. Faculty of Nursing, University of Kufa, Iraq 3Asst. Prof. University of Kufa, Iraq *Corresponding author: Doaa Ghaleb Hadi Al-Abayechi, E-mail: alabayechi@yahoo.com
Online published on 8 March, 2019. 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. Top Keywords Nocturnal asthma, Sleep disturbances, Self-management. Top |