[en] The objective of this work is to analyze the repercussion of a psycho-educative program (techniques of relaxation and self-control techniques) on different dimensions of personality and quality of life, in asthmatic people and its caretakers treated in the hospitable scope. 46 diagnosed patients of bronchial asthma at the Immunoallergology unit in the Hospital Cl?nico of Salamanca were selected at random, every of them under the same protocol of action. Before and after the treatment, the subjects complimented different questionnaires that mediate the dimensions of anxiety-be characteristics, as locus of control, visual-analogical climbs on the perception of the health degree, quality of life in asthmatic patients and possible precipitation agents of the asthmatic crises. Some of the most excellent results were: The psycho-educative program has served to reduce the level of anxiety been on the patient. The anxiety-characteristic of the sample does not present/display a score average superior that the general population. The psycho-educative treatments were more effective when patients presented certain characteristics like: locus of internal control, emotional level of anxiety been high, deficiencies in self-management of its disease, stimuli like main cause of its crises and a low Quality of LifeThe psycho-educative treatment has been beneficial as much for the primary caretaker as for the own one affected. Therefore the psychological intervention in the sanitary field is justified. It is important to offer integral treatments to the patients, that is to say, to combine the pharmacological therapy with psychological treatments.

[es] El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la repercusi?n de un programa psicoeducativo (t?cnicas de relajaci?n y autocontrol) sobre distintas dimensiones de personalidad y calidad de vida, en pacientes asm?ticos y sus cuidadores, tratados en el ?mbito hospitalario.Se seleccionaron al azar 46 pacientes diagnosticados de asma bronquial en la unidad de Inmunoalergia del Hospital Cl?nico de Salamanca, los cuales recibieron el mismo protocolo de actuaci?n. Antes y despu?s del tratamiento, los sujetos cumplimentaron distintos cuestionarios que median las dimensiones de ansiedad estado-rasgo, locus de control, escala visual anal?gica sobre la percepci?n del grado de salud, calidad de vida en pacientes asm?ticos y posibles precipitantes de las crisis asm?ticas.Algunos de los resultados m?s relevantes son los siguientes:El programa psicoeducativo ha servido para reducir el nivel de ansiedad-estado del paciente.La ansiedad-rasgo de la muestra no presenta una puntuaci?n media superior que la poblaci?n general.Los tratamientos psicoeducativos son m?s eficaces con pacientes que presentan caracter?sticas como: locus de control interno, nivel de ansiedad-estado alto, deficiencias en el automanejo de su enfermedad, est?mulos emocionales como causa principal de sus crisis y una baja Calidad de Vida.El tratamiento psicoeducativo ha sido beneficioso tanto para el cuidador primario como para el propio afectado.Por lo tanto la intervenci?n psicol?gica en el campo sanitario est? justificada. Es importante brindar al paciente tratamientos integrales, es decir, combinar la terapia farmacol?gica con tratamientos psicol?gicos.