Spain has found that of 100 children, about 8 to 12 have asthma. In Andalusia, one of 10 children and adolescents with asthma and in many cases its control and monitoring is suboptimal for several reasons.
Our healthcare institutions have placed children's asthma as a priority for the coming years and has structured a program of monitoring and control diagnostics for Andalusia in the spotlight are our teenagers and young people with asthma, including their attention on the school where he spends almost a third of the day. We can summarize the reasons why teachers should have information about a disease such as asthma, the following points:
- Frequency. Asthma is the most common chronic disease in childhood. The number of children with asthma make all teachers, at one time or another come into contact with students who have the disease
- Possibility of detection. 5-6 hours spent by a child at school / college, facilitates the detection of symptoms and diagnosis or follow-up changes in those children already diagnosed with asthma.
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or Consequences school absenteeism: the condition of crisis, medical consultations which should go when your asthma is poorly controlled and sometimes by the hospital when they present are serious crisis.
or decrease in school performance, as a result of absenteeism.
- Ability to control the disease by knowing and applying appropriate measures
or Medical Treatment and Sanitary / Preventative.
A better understanding of asthma in the school environment is conducive to integration and acceptance of young people who suffer with the rest of his teammates and possibly The teacher is in a better position to provide asthma education.
WHY TEACH A PROGRAM FOR ADOLESCENTS WITH ASTHMA? • Teens in their schools or colleges are separated from their parents for a longer period of time and have to be more autonomous in managing their asthma.
• The adoption of healthy behaviors and positive attitudes, it is important to perform in the early stages of life.
• Studies suggest that adolescents are able to take more responsibility for their health care and treatment when they were directly involved.
• Asthma can cause impact on social relations, self-esteem, school performance, physical activity and quality of life and can affect many facets of his life. An educational program that seeks to help or to reduce or eliminate these concerns should be addressed to the adolescents affected.
• The students with asthma were receiving support from their classmates.
PURPOSE OF OUR PROGRAM.
With this program we make available to the teachers of physical education a series of facts, suggestions for educational processes and materials to support teaching and control of asthma in the school environment. This program is designed to be imparted to adolescents 12 to 14 years and adapted to the characteristics of this age.
Program Objectives: • Mix
training in schools and evaluate their results.
• Create an environment of support and fellowship for all students with and without asthma
• Increase knowledge about asthma and how it affects sufferers.
• Promote responsibility for health care for all students.
• Encourage positive behaviors of student self-management of asthma.
• Improve the quality of life of children with asthma.
• Increase the level of activity and wellbeing.
• Act on the fears and myths related to asthma and its treatment.
• Reduce school absenteeism and emergency room visits.
• Integrate students with asthma in all age appropriate activities.
• Promote acceptance by all his classmates and teachers.
OBJECTIVES FOR THE CONTROL OF ASTHMA
With support for adolescents with asthma is to achieve and maintain better control of their disease, and improve the quality of life. To do this teachers must take into account three main objectives:
• Promote healthy behaviors to maintain and improve their health, quality of life and wellbeing.
• Encourage communication among adolescents with asthma and their families and professionals (doctors and nurses).
• Increase the understanding of asthma.
When is successfully achieved these three objectives can reach the following results: • Controlling symptoms
and remain free of them.
• Maintain pulmonary function as normally as possible.
• Prevent the occurrence of asthma attacks.
• Perform the activities of this age including exercise.
• Reduce student's truancy.
• Reduce the amount of medicine to take, getting a good control of their asthma.
• Avoid medication side effects that occur when they are misused.
• Reduce hospital visits and unscheduled consultations with your doctor.
• Prevent future complications of poorly controlled asthma.
• Control anxiety and fear associated with asthma.
PROGRAM FEATURES. Among the features of the educational program can list the following:
• Communication between parents and teachers about asthma management both in class and at home the teenager. It has a chip on the parents and student medical report and treatment characteristics of asthma, the teacher and their authorization to work in the treatment if necessary
• Embracing and promoting the realization of asthma control plans by the health care of students with asthma.
• Share the experience of asthma with students without asthma.
• Set goals by students involved in decision-making.
• Proposal of healthy habits and avoidance of smoking in all students learning
• Content taught in three sessions of 45 minutes.
• Experimentation and discovery of how asthma works through a series of activities led by teachers, facilitating reflection.
• Promoting preventative strategies include avoidance of triggers, detecting early signs of asthma and early intervention to prevent deterioration.
• Interactive Teaching positive reinforcement which increases the learning performance
• visual support of concepts by using graphic and visual.
• This educational package available to the teachers the following resources
asthma or Teacher Manual that outlines concepts of asthma and its care for teacher learning. Three
or Power-Point presentations to classes to teach Tutorial
or where teachers are given suggestions on how to teach each of the three classes that make up the educational program.
or educational DVD for group discussion guide for use with
material support or first aid poster, inhalers, spacers, straws, smoking model lungs, peak flow meters and disposable mouthpieces. Checklist
or friend of the asthma center. It details the actions to be taken to the appropriate school students with asthma
or data sheet on asthma students filled out by your parents and your doctor
Last Wednesday, November 19 at the 2nd Forum of Health Innovation, the Coun-Jeri Health of the Andalusian Government, held in the town of Ronda (Malaga) took delivery awards for innovative practices, call 2008. The only prize awarded this year, among the ninety health innovation projects submitted, went to Seville GESA interdisciplinary group (Group Asthma Education and Health), in paragraph innovation in the public relations for work on education asthma and support the sport in people with asthma, conducted with 4,500 pupils from 26 secondary schools in the province of Sevilla.El project that has made this work is called "Education of asthmatics in secondary schools by teachers physical education "research group (GESA) so fifteen employees make public dependent on three Departments of the Government of Andalusia (Health, Education and Innovation, Science and Enterprise) and consists of three pediatricians, a school doctor, two nurses, three physical education teachers and six university professors, two sport science, two teaching and two in statistics. The forum, organized by the Innovative Practices Bank Andalusian Public Health System, was chaired by Ilma. Purification Ms Galvez, Director General 
Innovation of the Ministry of Health. At the end of the act, and upon presentation of the award-winning innovative practice, President proceeded to the award to director of research and certificate to the members of the group. This project has been funded by the Program for Promotion of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Ministry of Health, docket number 060774, and the Ministry of Health of the Andalusian Government for funding research projects and plans for research training in health sciences, file number 0040/06. 
