GYMNASTIC ASTHMA AS AN EFFECTIVE ALTERNATIVE THERAPY TO REDUCE THE FREQUENCY OF USING ANTI ASTHMA DRUGS

Introduction: Asthma is one of the disease with the highest number of people at this time. The incidence is increasing throughout the world blooming with the progress of industry and increased pollution. According to WHO, the number of asthma sufferers will reach 400 million people at 2025, with the increase of 180.000 every years. Anti-asthma drugs is one way to cope asthma, but the use in the long term will make adverse health effects. Gymnastic asthma is one treatment option for asthma patients. The study aims to examine the effectiveness of asthma gymnastic in reducing the use of anti-asthma drugs. Method : This study used the Pre Experimental Design (Pre-Experiment) by using pretest posttest design. The samples ofthis study was the members of PORPI asthma gymnastic at Malang in the amount of 37 people. Result : Wilcoxon Signed Rank test and linear regression test showed the results Z = -5.385; p = 0.00; α = 0.05; R square = 0.772. Conclussion : asthma gymnastics effective in reducing the use of anti-asthma drugs. The Suggestions of this study are expected asthmatics can use asthma gymnastic as one option to reduce the use of anti-asthma drugs. Keywords: asthma, asthma gymnastic, anti-asthma drug