Vol. 9, Issue 5, Part E (2023)

Asthma is a condition in which the airways of the lungs are narrowed making breathing difficulty. Asthma is estimated to affect 300 million people worldwide. About 10 out of every 100 children in India have asthma. It is more common in urban than rural because of industrialization and air pollution. Asthma is more common in winter season, and commonly affects the age group of 2-6 years of age. A quasi-experimental pre-test and post-test design was used for the study. The sample consists of 60 mothers of under-five asthmatic children in chosen by using purposive sampling technique in selected hospitals at Bangalore. The pre-test revealed that knowledge on bronchial asthma before structured teaching programme was inadequate (60%) and moderately adequate (37%) and adequate (3%). The result shows that there is significant improvement (p<0.05) in the level of knowledge of mothers on bronchial asthma after implementing the STP. There was a significant association between the level of knowledge and practice with Mothers education, No. of children’s and source of information. Hence both research hypotheses are accepted. In a nutshell it is proved that the planned teaching programme is an effective tool to improve knowledge and practice.