Considerations on the right of information of the pediatric asthmatic patient

Abstract

We aimed at investigating the knowledge of asthmatic children on their situation, preventive practices and behaviors in the face of crisis. It is an exploratory and descriptive study developed together with 35 children assisted at a public hospital in the city of Fortaleza – CE. Among the children studied, 88.6% knew the name of their disease; 54.3% said they got that information from their mothers; 37.2% got that from health professionals and 5.7% discovered by listening to the guidelines doctors gave to their mothers. We concluded that children have good knowledge on their disease but health professionals are the ones who less inform about the health-disease process of those children.