Abstract
Bronchial asthma in childhood has much psychosocial effects to the patients and their families during their illness.
We found the several reports of parental perceptions and attitudes towards their children's asthma, but any report of siblings has not been found. In this study we investigated one hundred of siblings' perceptions and attitudes towards asthma by the questionnaires. (How do you help your siblilngs during their asthmatic attacks? How do you feel during the asthmatic attacks? What's the cause of their asthma? How do you think about the prognosis of asthma? Have you ever experienced any difficulties in being siblings of them? etc.)
As a result, the influence of asthmatic attack on sibilngs were huge; sleep disturbance, wasting time for patients. Answers of siblings let us know new aspects of patients' problems. To understand patients' psychosocial background, not only patients but siblings and parents need our approaches about asthma.
