Asthma is responsible for major number of deaths worldwide with majority in America affecting even India with 57.15% of total population. The risk factors of asthma are smoking, allergens like animal dander, pollen grains of flowers, dust and smoke of cooking sticks. People with asthma have poor quality of life due unaware of risk factors for asthma, so as to improve their quality of life , clinical pharmacist should play a key role to make patients aware of the risk factors causing asthma. A Prospective observational study was conducted taking 122 asthma diagnosed patients to improve their quality of life with awareness about risk factors using pictogram in general medicine units of tertiary care teaching hospital. Out of 122 patients, most of patients were male (79) with maximum of patients in age group of 56-65, workers (54), illiterate (89), rural (93), socio economic status (56 are very poor). Patients have smoking habit (50) and patients were having chewing tobacco habit (5) as risk factors, people allergic to dust (34), major symptoms were shortness of breath (92) and wheezing (72), severe (50.82% of total population). The prevalence rate of asthma was found to be 20.71%. Study concludes that clinical pharmacists should play a responsible role in improving the quality of life of asthma patients by conducting awareness studies and programs to patients.
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