Health locus of control related daily living activities during COVID 19 pandemic as an indicator of Bronchial Asthma

Background: Bronchial asthma is a widespread chronic airway inflammatory disease, and it is characterized by paroxysmal or continual respiratory manifestations and airway airflow limitations. Accordingly, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) impact on quality of life including daily living activities come into views to be highly misjudged, especially in patients who have not been admitted to the hospital. Aim: To find out relationship between health locus of control and daily living activities among adult patients with bronchial asthma during Covid 19 Pandemic at Port- said city in Egypt. Subject and methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out on a total of 230 adult patients from both sex with bronchial asthma attend medical chest clinics in Alsalam, Por – fouad, Algawhara governmental hospital at Port-said city, Egypt responded to the self-administered survey and excluded patients with co- morbid diseases and were refused to participate in the study using self-administered survey divided into three main parts. First part consist of 8 items related to demographic data, second part: Patient's knowledge regarding bronchial Asthma adapted from Williams., 2005, third part: it adapted from Putman., 2004 to assess the effect of covid 19 on bronchial asthma patient's daily living activities and locus of control. Results: there are a statistically significant relation between total scores of locus of asthma control and smoking pattern ps= (o, oo3) with total Mean scores and SD 28.52 ± 4.43. Also, there are a positive correlation between total daily living activities scores and total locus of control among patients with Bronchial Asthma. Finally, there are a statistically significant relation between total daily living activities scores and Bronchial Asthma patients and their socio-demographic characteristics only in the items related to patient's residence Ps=( 0.082) . Conclusion: Patient with Bronchial Asthma need for receive regular; periodic in-service coping program contains methods of adherence with their daily living activities, knowledge of their disease which indirectly added stressor on patient's life and indirectly affect their disease management and coping especially in the period of Corona virus Pandemic which added stressors of those patients. Further studies are needed to study the coping strategies that influence bronchial Asthma patient's locus of control, management and coping with their disease with a large geographical areas and sampling.