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Background: Bronchial asthma is a widespread chronic airway inflammatory disease, and it is characterized by paroxysmal or continual respiratory manifestations and airway airflow limitations. Accordingly, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) impact on quality of life including daily living activities come into views to be highly misjudged, especially in patients who have not been admitted to the hospital. Aim: To find out relationship between health locus of control and daily living activities among adult patients with bronchial asthma during Covid 19 Pandemic at Port- said city in Egypt. Subject and methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out on a total of 230 adult patients from both sex with bronchial asthma attend medical chest clinics in Alsalam, Por – fouad, Algawhara governmental hospital at Port-said city, Egypt responded to the self-administered survey and excluded patients with co- morbid diseases and were refused to participate in the study using self-administered survey divided into three main parts. First part consist of 8 items related to demographic data, second part: Patient's knowledge regarding bronchial Asthma adapted from Williams., 2005, third part: it adapted from Putman., 2004 to assess the effect of covid 19 on bronchial asthma patient's daily living activities and locus of control. Results: there are a statistically significant relation between total scores of locus of asthma control and smoking pattern ps= (o, oo3) with total Mean scores and SD 28.52 ± 4.43. Also, there are a positive correlation between total daily living activities scores and total locus of control among patients with Bronchial Asthma. Finally, there are a statistically significant relation between total daily living activities scores and Bronchial Asthma patients and their socio-demographic characteristics only in the items related to patient's residence Ps=( 0.082) . Conclusion: Patient with Bronchial Asthma need for receive regular; periodic in-service coping program contains methods of adherence ...