Journal of Psychology & Psychotherapy
Open Access

Abstract

The Effectiveness of Self-Control and Anxiety Management Training to Reduce Anxiety and Improve Health-Related Quality of Life in Children with Asthma

Walaa A Abd Elfatah

The study aimed to identify the effect of using two behavioral intervention, self-control and anxiety management training AMT in reducing both the degree of anxiety, and recurrence of asthma attacks and it improve health-related quality of life HRQoL in a sample of asthma patients from school children. The study sample consisted of (10) children from asthma patients enrolled in primary and middle basic education in Egypt, the ages ranged between (10-13) years, were divided randomly into two groups are equal in number, age, and social level. Experimental group consists of (5) children received a program based on self-control and AMT, and a control group consists of (5) children did not receive any experimental procedure. The study included all of the tools: Anxiety scale for children and HRQoL questionnaire for asthmatic children, in addition to the intervention program based on selfcontrol and AMT. The results showed the effectiveness of the behavioral intervention program in reducing both of the degree of anxiety, number of asthma attacks, and improve HRQoL in the experimental group, comparing to the two measurements pre and post then the follow up, as well as comparing to the control group in the post measurement.