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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">3521</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url">http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.13606</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Bronchial Asthma Among Medical Students - A Questionnaire Based Study&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>A</surname><given-names>Kavya</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>P</surname><given-names>Joy</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>20</day><month>03</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>129</fpage><lpage>134</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: Bronchial asthma is a chronic inflammatory airway hyper-responsiveness which can occur at any age. It is a serious health problem worldwide with a prevalence anticipated to be approximately 4.5 percent. There are more than 339 mil lion asthma patients across the world including all age groups. In India, the burden of the disease is estimated at more than 15 million patients. Though asthma can__ampersandsignrsquo;t be completely cured, clinical episodes can be prevented and controlled to a greater extent through proper management. But insufficient knowledge of asthma has led to inadequate disease management which has resulted in increased morbidity. Objective: To assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of bronchial asthma among medical students. Methods: A questionnaire based study was conducted in our Institute for a period of 3 months. The data was collected by ad ministering questionnaire comprising of knowledge, attitude and practice towards bronchial asthma to all medical students in our institute. Results: 93.3% students had known about the disease.85.3% of participants knew about the symptoms of the disease while only 46% knew about the diagnosis using spirometry. 63.4% knew about the medication used and around 83.7% knew about the best route of administration.77.5% had adequate knowledge.62.2% and 61% showed positive attitude and good practice respectively. Conclusion: Successful outcome towards asthma management relies upon many factors like adequate education, positive at titude and good practice towards the disease. Our study concludes that knowledge, attitude and practice towards the disease increases through each year of medical course.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Attitude</kwd><kwd> Bronchial asthma</kwd><kwd> Knowledge</kwd><kwd> Medical students</kwd><kwd> Practice</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
