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Recently the increasement in the morbidity and mortality of the chronic respiratory diseases as a consequence of exposure to various allergens, chemicals, air pollution and aging population makes it more important to educate patients concerning self-management of them. In many medical institutions the patient education for inhalent therapy has been carried out, but the absence of standardized education program brings patients on the confusion and difficulty in using inhalers (MDIs and DPIs). Since Sep. 2004, by the request of the respiratory medical specialists we have educated patients with the program that provides the informations of the detection, the treatment and the control of respiratory diseases, particularly at high-risk condition and teaches correct skills of inhalation by samples over 3-4 visits so as not to overwhelm the patients with too much informations at one time. The research of 78 patients who had taken the education of respiratory disease in Paik Hospital from Sep. 1st to Oct. 22th , 2004 was conducted to evaluate the efficiency of our guidelines for patient education nd consider more effective education programs. Through this research, 34 patients (43.5%) among them, who have taken counseling by various health-professionals including physicians, community-pharmacists, nurses have little benefit from ours, but the inexperienced others showed more correct inhalation skill and improvement of control their disease. To enhance the quality of life for patients and decrease morbidity and mortality, we must raise awareness of patients that their disease is serious chronic and ensure effective control of asthma, COPD by partnership among patients, pharmacists, physicians through more approaches to various efficient education programs.
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