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Table 1 Descriptive presentation of the questions that formed the questionnaire used in the study.

From: Assessing the knowledge of bronchial asthma among primary health care physicians in Crete: A pre- and post-test following an educational course

Questions 1–11 (general knowledge questions)

Q1: The WHO-NHLBI definition of bronchial asthma.

Q2: Factors that are correlated to an increase in the incidence of the disease.

Q3,Q4:Risk factors for the development of bronchial asthma.

Q5,Q10: Factors that trigger an asthma attack.

Q6: Elements from the clinical history that are useful for formulating the diagnosis

of bronchial asthma.

Q7: Laboratory – physiologic tests used for the diagnosis of the disease.

Q8: Estimation of the severity of an asthma attack by clinical signs and laboratory

test results.

Q9: Differential diagnosis of bronchial asthma.

Q11: Diurnal Peak Expiratory Flow (PEF) variation in the diagnosis of asthma.

Questions 12–20 ("attitudes questions")

Q12: Staging chronic asthma according to the severity and frequency of symptoms

and to the PEF results. (Clinical cases).

Q13: Pharmacological treatment of an imaginary patient with stage II bronchial

asthma. (Clinical case).

Q14: Pharmacological treatment of an imaginary patient with stage III bronchial

asthma. (Clinical case).

Q15: Management of bronchial asthma during pregnancy. Q16: Recognition of the stage and medicament choice for an imaginary patient with

stage III bronchial asthma. (Clinical case).

Q17: Management of chronic nocturnal cough in asthmatic patients.

Q18: Alarming clinical signs during an acute asthma attack that compel an urgent

referral of a patient to the hospital.

Q19: Use of the inhaled corticosteroids in the management of chronic versus acute

bronchial asthma.

Q20: Instructions for the patients: When should they seek immediate medical care.