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Special ReportStrengthening Asthma Education to Enhance Disease Control
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The Circles of Influence on Patients Managing Asthma
As asthma is a condition that cannot be prevented or cured, the aim of everyone must be to control its effect on a patient's health status and functioning, to curtail its disruptive impact on family life, and to reduce the health-care and other costs associated with it. We have found that one way to understand the range of influences on effective asthma control is to envisage concentric circles revolving around the patient (Fig 1). Each ring of the concentric circles represents people,
Barriers to Effective Asthma Control
Several factors and practices appear to work against asthma control.
Actions to Make Asthma Education More Effective
Five actions (Table 1) on the part of those involved in asthma education may enhance its effectiveness.
First is to ensure that the objectives, messages, skills, and processes of asthma education are consistent with the national asthma guidelines in use in a given country. Cabana and colleagues79 reviewed 76 studies describing why physicians do not follow guidelines for practice. They concluded that there are 10 types of barriers: (1) lack of awareness, (2) lack of familiarity, or (3) lack of
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