@article{Ch._Younus_Anwer_Aneela_Saeed_2014, title={Asthma Management in Pregnancy: Young Female Doctors Knowledge and Practice}, volume={18}, url={https://www.annalskemu.org/journal/index.php/annals/article/view/450}, DOI={10.21649/akemu.v18i4.450}, abstractNote={<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Abstract</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.6pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Background:  </span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Optimal asthma control in pregnant women is very much essential for the good health of both mother and the fetus. Maternal and fetal compli-cations occur due to poor control of asthma. There are concerns that management of bronchial asthma in pre-gnant women should be optimal by the health pro-fessionals.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.6pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Objective:  </span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The aim of the study was to evaluate the knowledge and practices of young female doctors abo-ut the bronchial asthma management in pregnancy.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Study Design:  </span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Randomized evidence based.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Study Setting:  </span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) interviews for women medical officers and female doctors working in different medical units and chest unit of Mayo Hospital – a tertiary care hospital affiliated with King Edward Medical University, La-hore.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Materials and Methods:  </span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">A questionnaire based sur-vey of knowledge and practices of one hundred and one female doctors in the management of bronchial asthma was made. Amongst these, 32 doctors were FCPS – 1 in medicine and gynecology. Remaining 69 doctors were in the pipeline and they have completed one year house job in different specialties. The case scenario was “Asthma management approach during pregnancy in a stable patient of moderate severity”.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Inclusion Criteria</span></strong></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 1pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">      </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">All those female doctors who have completed one year house job.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 1pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">2.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">      </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Female doctors working in gynecology, medicine, surgery and allied specialties.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Results:  </span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Overall 14 (13.6%) doctors {5 (35.7%) PGs and 9 (64.3%) Non PGs} have the standard prescrip-tion of inhaled corticosteroids with long acting inhaled B<sub>2</sub> agonists and montelukast as controller medication and short acting inhaled B<sub>2</sub> agonist as needed as reli-ever medication according to the standard guidelines.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Conclusion:  </span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The majority of young female doctors had the suboptimal knowledge and practice of asthma management in pregnancy. We suggest initiating the training programs to optimize their knowledge and practices.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Keywords:  </span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bronchial Asthma, pregnant women,<br /> moderate, PGs (Postgraduate i.e. FCPS – 1) Non PGs (MBBS + one year house job) , nebulization  ICS – in-haled corticosteroids , TDS – thrice daily, bd – twice daily , Tab – Tablet. Inj- injection, OD – once daily, antibiotics.</span></p>}, number={4}, journal={Annals of King Edward Medical University}, author={Ch., Muhammad Khalid and Younus, Muhammad and Anwer, Sohail and Aneela, Irrum and Saeed, Muhammad Saqib}, year={2014}, month={Jan.}, pages={346} }