Comparing the Effectiveness of Family Care Based on the Model of Health Belief, and Health-Promoting Styles Training on the Illness Perception and Somatic Symptoms of Patients with Asthma.

Background: The purpose of this research was to compare the effectiveness of family care based on the health belief model, and health-promoting styles training on the illness perception and somatic symptoms of patients with asthma. Methods: This semi-experimental research was conducted with a pretest-posttest design, follow-up, and a control group. The statistical population of this research included patients with mild asthma who were referred to Shahid Fayaz Bakhsh Hospital in Tehran, Iran, in the spring of 2019. Using purposive sampling, 45 of them were selected and randomly assigned to 2 intervention groups and 1 control group. The research tools included a demographic questionnaire, and the Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ) and St. George Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ). After the implementation of the health belief and health-promoting style interventions, repeated measures analysis of variance was used to analyze the data. Results: The results of the Bonferroni post hoc test indicate a significant difference between the averages of the experimental and control groups, as well as in the pretest stage with the posttest, and pretest with follow-up in terms of the severity of the somatic symptoms. Moreover, they indicate the positive effect of the health promotion intervention and the health belief intervention in the experimental group and the continuation of these effects in the follow-up phase. Conclusion: It can be concluded that there was a significant difference between the averages of the experimental and control groups, as well as in the pretest stage with the posttest, and pretest with follow-up in terms of the illness perception variable, which indicate the positive effect of the health promotion intervention and the health belief intervention in the experimental group and the continuation of these effects in the follow-up phase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]