Education With Cartoon's Effectiveness on Disease Management of the Children With Asthma

This is the standart education given by doctor. The child and his/her parents come to the doctor for normal examination. They take their asthma diagnosis or other information about their condition. and then the doctor explain them about what is asthma, what are the drugs or how should they use them. This is the implementation using for the control group.

First of all, the child and their parents take the routine examination as the same as the control group. Then they take the experimental education called Health Promotion Program with cartoon education for Children with Asthma. The children with asthma were educated within the scope of the program in order to demonstrate the effect of the program on asthma management. Children with asthma were educated with the program, which consisted of 4 units, each of 10 minutes, prepared in the light of the literature and with the current guidelines. Each child received the education in a total of 40 minutes. Every unit has its own cartoon video and comic book material. To sum up The Principal Investigator first give the education about asthma management, then makes them watch the Iggy and the Inhalers videos developed for each unit, and does a colouring activity with comic books at the end of each unit.