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. 2001 Oct 27;323(7319):962. doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7319.962

Box 3.

: Confidence to control asthma in south Asian and white patients with asthma not admitted to hospital

  • Being positive
  • “I think you have got to be positive. It is no good sort of, you've really got to be positive in the outlook, and you've got to actually think to yourself, ‘Well, I’m in control.' ”
  • 42 year old white woman
  • Partner generating confidence to control asthma
  • What role did your partner play? “He was very, very good. He was so caring. He went through the stages with me, made me do my breathing exercises, was there anything he could do or fetch, he helps me through it.”
  • Do you change your medication? “Yes, it all depends on how I feel. If I wake up in the morning bad, right, and my peak flow is low then I take my steroid inhaler 500 μg, and I take two puffs of that. Then I take my Ventolin about 10 minutes afterwards. Then I take six steroid tablets, that is only if it is bad.”
  • 45 year old white woman (b)