Chronic Cough.

Objective: Chronic cough is one of the most common causes of absence from school, education and disturbances in ordinary works. According to its high prevalence in our population and lack of study (ies) about this in our country, this study has been performed to estimate chronic cough preformed, to estimate chronic cough prevalence and determinate its relations to variables such as age, sex, location, parent's education and smoking. Materials and methods: This descriptive analytic cross- sectional study has been performed on 3222 students of primary school during 1379-80. Date was acquired by interview, completion of questionaries' and sanitary service records. Then information became analyzed and tested by person chi-square test if needed. Results: Findings showed that the prevalence of chronic cough in our population was 3.6% (3.5% male and 3.8% female). Among 3222 students, 1748 (962 male and 786 female) subjects were from urban and 1474 (719 male and 755 female) rural population. 118 cases had chronic cough in urban population the prevalence was 4 percent (3.2% male and 4.7% female) and in rural population 3.2% (3.6% male and 2.9% female). Among 118 involved students, 60 cases had a smoker father (50.8%) and among 3104 others, 1438 cases had a non-smoker father (46.3%). Conclusion: Our finding showed that sex, age location smoking and parent's education had relation to chronic cough of students. So we decide that for reducing the chronic cough prevalence in our society especially primary school ones. Health and sanity education planned and distributed in a wide array to diagnostic modalities and appropriate therapeutic plans for reduction of chronic cough complication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]