Influences of Compliance Behavior and Health Education on Frequency and Cost of Health Care Used by Children with Asthma

The increasing prevalence rate has attracted great attention from government agents and academic researchers. Although asthma in childhood can be effectively controlled by environment hygiene and outpatient care, some of the caregivers typically rely on acute episodic care instead of routine self-managed care due to lack of relevant medical knowledge and proper attitudes to manage the disease.

Less satisfactory treatment outcome and higher medical cost are brought about by such misconceived attitudes and behaviors. The first-year study is aimed to evaluate the factors influencing knowledge and attitudes related to asthma as well as the Health-Related Quality of Life (HR-QoL) in respect of the caregivers. A total of 566 valid data were obtained from the caregivers.