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Journal of Medical Education

學校護理人員對氣喘兒童照護之再教育需求

Abstract

Asthma is the most common chronic disease of children in schools. Symptom monitoring, medication use and urgent symptom management mostly rely on school health care nurses to provide both daily and urgent care approaches. This study aims at measuring the asthma knowledge, asthma care experiences, and the contributing factors with respect to asthma knowledge to explore the re-education need of the school health care nurse. Data was randomly and anonymously collected from 60 school nurses who worked in elementary, middle, high schools and colleges. 20-item ”Asthma Knowledge Scale” consisted of three subscales:characteristics of asthma, medication administration and symptom assessment/urgent treatment. The findings showed a good knowledge level of the characteristics of asthma but poor knowledge of symptom assessment/urgent treatment. Asthma knowledge was negatively correlated with the school nurses' length of service(r=-.38,p＜.05). There were significant differences in asthma knowledge according to years of services(F=3.70,p＜.05)and the type of school(F=3.38,p＜.05). The regression analysis showed that the shorter the years of school service and the longer the experience of allergy that the school nurses had, the better asthma knowledge they attained. These variables explained 49.2% of the total variance. Improvements to the quality of care of children with asthma and the management capability of school nurses as well as the pre-service and in-service education program related to children with asthma are discussed.

First Page

324

Last Page

332

DOI

10.6145/jme.200209_6(3).0007

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