[Level of knowledge about asthma among parents of asthmatic children]

To determine the level of knowledge of asthma in asthmatic children's parents.

A questionnaire was applied in asthmatic children's parents that had not taken some course about asthma, to explore the knowledge that they have about the illness. A questionnaire of the National Asthma Education Program of NIH was used. They were only questions of false or true options.

512 questionnaires were applied finding mainly that 53.1% considered to the asthma an emotional illness, 52.5% believed that the way that parents raise their children cause the asthma, 32.8% considered that the acute episodes are not dangerous. The 39.1% ignored that it is possible to measure the lung function, 23.4% considered that the patient with asthma should not carry out exercise and 57.8% "knew" that the asthma in the children disappears spontaneously in the adolescence.

The level of education about asthma in the parents is insufficient, and also is wrong in almost half of them.