Effectiveness of Gymnastic Asthma and Slow Deep Breathing Exercises in Increasing Peak Flow of Expiration in Patients with Asthma at Two Primary Health Care Services in Jakarta
Ballsy C. A. Pangkey (a), Ni Luh Widani (b), Emiliana Tjitra (b)

a) Faculty of Nursing Universitas Pelita Harapan
b) Master of Nursing Study Program Sint Carolus School Of Health Sciences

Abstract

Asthma is a disorder of the bronchi that the incidence reaches 2,5% in Jakarta. Non-pharmacology asthma therapy is asthma and slow deep breathing exercises. The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of gymnastic asthma and SDB exercises to increase the peak expiratory flow (PEF) on asthmatic patients at the two selected Primary Health Care Services in Jakarta from June until July 2019. The design of the study was a quasi-experimental pre-post-test with a control group. There were each 25 subjects in the intervention group and control groups selected with purposive sampling technique. The results showed that the characteristics of the subjects were not different between the study groups except obese subjects whose numbers were more in the intervention group than in the control group (p=0.002). After four weeks, mean of the PEF in the intervention group was improved or increased from the yellow zone (50 until <80%) into green zone (80 until 100%), while in the control group, majority of PEFs subjects remained in the yellow zone. Paired sample t-test result in the intervention group showed that there was a significant difference in the PEF before and after the intervention (p=0,000, <0,05). A difference was found in the PEF between intervention and control groups (p=0,000) at the end of the study. This study recommends the need to apply gymnastic asthma and SDB exercises for >4 weeks to improve the quality of life of asthmatic patients.

Keywords: Expiration Peak Flow- Asthma- Asthma Gymnastics- Slow Deep Breathing

Topic: Medical and Surgical Nursing