Assessment of Asthma Control and Quality of Life among Asthmatic Patients Attending Armed Forces Referral and Teaching Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Table 1

Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of asthmatic patients at Armed Forces Referral and Teaching Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, July-October 2015 ().

Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics	Number (%)
Age, mean (SD)	44.1 (±13.6)
Gender
Male	104 (56.5)
Female	80 (43.5)
Educational status
No formal education	28 (15.2)
Primary education	42 (22.8)
Secondary education	71 (38.6)
Higher institute	43 (23.4)
Duration of asthma
≤14.8 years	89 (48.4)
>14.8 years	95 (51.6)
Asthma severity
Intermittent	25 (13.6)
Mild persistent	66 (35.9)
Moderate persistent	54 (29.3)
Severe persistent	39 (21.2)
ACT
Well controlled	59 (32.1)
Partially controlled	36 (19.6)
Very poorly controlled	89 (48.4)
Mini-AQLQ, mean (SD)
Symptoms domain	4.49 (1.24)
Activity domain	4.59 (1.2)
Emotional domain	4.7 (1.1)
Environmental domain	4.09 (1.7)
Comorbidity
Yes	65 (35.3)
No	119 (64.7)
Admitted to ICU or intubated in the last 12 months
Yes	39 (21.2)
No	145 (78.8)

ACT = Asthma Control Test; mini-AQLQ = Mini-Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire; ICU = intensive care unit. Histogram was constructed to analyze normal distribution of asthma duration. The normal curve displayed that duration of diagnosis was normally distributed.