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Background: Asthma is the most prevalent disease during childhood, known as the most importantreason for children’s disability adolescences truancies, thanks to their hospitalization and as a resultintensification of disease symptom. Material and methods: The present study is quasi-experimentalkind, implemented with two groups. Sampling method was straightforward. 80 student’s secondgrade high school students constitute participants. Both groups were homogenized consideringage, gender, education, and parent’s vocation. First of all, a letter agreement was received fromstudents. Then, the knowledge and accomplishment of students were measured by means ofrelevant questionnaire and checklist in advance of educational intervention. In the next step, during4 sessions, educational content specified beforehand was presented to students via interview,lecture, group discussion, and display methods. The knowledge and accomplishment of bothgroups’ students was measured through questionnaire and checklist. Finally, the data was analyzedby SPSS 16 and statistical test of t-paired, independent-t, man-Whitney, and ANOVA. Results: Thefinding demonstrated that group’s student accomplishment registered 91.8 ± 1.3 while being2.2 ± 0.6 before holding session. In addition, their knowledge increased significantly, registering99.6 ± 1.2 while it had measured as 1.3 ± 0.3 before sessions. The results of paired t-test indicatedthat the average of difference between knowledge and accomplishment grades of two groupswas significant (P<0.05). Conclusions: Regarding the finding of the present study and the factthat asthma is on the rise resulting in an increase in truancies as well as stressing the efficacy oftraining peers suffering from the disease, the implementation of the curriculum could be necessary.