Parental Perceptions and Practices toward Childhood Asthma

Table 6

Factors and parental perception that influence concerns towards the use of inhaled therapy in children with asthma.

Variables	Worries from dependency (%)	value
Family income
Low	125 (39.4)	≤0.001
Middle	49 (25.5)
High	18 (19.8)
Number of children in the family
1–5	86 (28.0)	0.048
6–10	91 (35.0)
>10	15 (45.4)
	Worries from inhaler steroids side effects
Parent education level
Illiterate	39 (66.1)	0.038
Secondary	159 (62.8)
University	138 (58.7)
Higher education	25 (47.2)