Becker-compliance With A Medical Reigime For Asthma

Question 1

How many participants?

Answer 1

111 mothers

Question 2

How old were the mothers?

Answer 2

17-54

Question 3

How old were the children?

Answer 3

9 months -17 years

Question 4

What was the method?

Answer 4

Self report: clinical tests: correlation.
a correlation between beliefs reported during interviews with compliance with self reported administration of asthma medication.

Question 5

How many pps did the covert blood test?

Answer 5

70% , and this test was used to test the level of medication , this confirmed the validity of the mothers answers in the interview.

Question 6

What was the procedure?

Answer 6

Each mother was interviewed and asked questions regarding their perceptions of :
Childs susceptibility to illness and asthma
Their beliefs about how serious the asthma was
How much their child’s asthma interfered with their child’s education caused embarrassment and interfered with the mothers activities

They were also asked about their attitudes to their doctors effectiveness of the medication

Question 7

What was the questions asking about their perceptions of?

Answer 7

Childs susceptibility to illness and asthma
Their beliefs about how serious the asthma was
How much their child’s asthma interfered with their child’s education caused embarrassment and interfered with the mothers activities

Question 8

What was there a positive correlation between?

Answer 8

The mothers belief about her child’s suspect ability to asthma and compliance to medical reigime

Question 9

What was there a negative correlation between?

Answer 9

Compliance and disruption of daily routines , inassesability of chemists and child’s compliance about the medication

Question 10

What were the 2 demographic variables that were correlated ?

Answer 10

Compliance with martial status and education. Married mums were more likely to comply as well as those who were more educated/

Question 11

What was one finding that conflicted with the hbm

Answer 11

Mothers who were compliant reported less faith in their medical practitioners

Question 12

What are the conclusions of the study?

Answer 12

The hbm is a useful model to predict and explain different levels of compliance with medical reigimes

Question 13

Aim?

Answer 13

To use the hbm to explain mothers adherence to a drug regime for their asthmatic children