Table 3: Medication related information asthmatic patients at Soddo Christian General Hospital, June-July 2017 [N = 106].

Drug related variables Number Percentage%
Other sources of medications for asthma
Private pharmacy
Government Health facilities
Mission hospitals/clinics
Red cross pharmacy
24
32
8
42
22.6%
30.2%
7.5%
39.6%
Knowledge on use of asthma medications
Curing
Reducing pain
Reducing progression of asthma
I don’t know
10
12
71
13
9.4%
11.3%
70%
12.3%
Concurrently taken medications (N = 170)
Pain killers
Anti-invectives
Sleeping pills
Cardiovascular drugs
Contraceptives
CNS drugs
Others
26
27
10
20
7
11
6
24.5%
26%
9.4%
18.8%
6.6%
9.6%
5.6%
Number drugs taken per day
One
Two
Three
More than three
31
35
24
16
30.8%
34.8%
24%
10.4%
Use of treatments other than antiasthma drugs
Traditional medicine
Religious methods
Not used
32
51
22
31%
48%
21%