Table 2.

Treatment Preference for Asthma and Related Knowledge Among Parents Whose Child Has Asthma Based on Prior Diagnosis (Vietnamese N = 360).

	Percentage
Treatment preferences
Preference for treating chronic conditions:
Prefer traditional therapy combined with doctor recommendationa	20.4
Parent feels “very uncomfortable” about giving their child daily medication for a chronic condition prescribed by a doctor	26.9
Reason(s) that could keep parent from giving their child medications exactly the way a doctor prescribed it?
1. I always give medications exactly as instructed	71.7
2. I’m afraid of the side effects or long-term effects	23.4
3. My child feels better then I give less medication	19.7
4. Costs of medication	3.4
5. I give less because the medication is too strong	2.9
6. I don’t understand the instructions	1.4
7. My child feels worse then I give more medication	0.9
8. I don’t understand why it was prescribed	0.3
Asthma medications come in many different forms, for treating your child’s asthma, which do you prefer?
Inhalers—examples, Flovent, Albuterol, Ventolin	64.2
Nebulizers	16.4
Pills or tablets to take by mouth	5.4
Liquids to take by mouth	14.0
Asthma knowledge
To the best of your knowledge, asthma is
1. A condition that only requires medication if there are symptoms (cough, trouble breathing, wheezing, etc)	48.9
2. Genetic or inherited family condition	36.9
3. Related to environment (dirt, dust, smoke, pollution)	58.9
4. Related to cool and hot foods	3.7
Parent has used complementary and alternative (CAM) medicine	38.1

^aFurther specification of treatment preference categories: To use traditional home therapies (n = 5), to go to traditional healer (n = 4), combination with doctor recommendation (n = 62).