Trial reportThorax1999
Evaluation of a randomised controlled trial of adult asthma education in a hospital setting.
Trial report in Thorax, 1999. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 65 citations in OpenAlex.
- Education interventions for adults who attend the emergency room for acute asthma.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2007Pooled it
- [Can we improve management and control of chronic diseases?].Atencion primaria · 2006Pooled it
- Options for self-management education for adults with asthma.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2003Pooled it
- Limited (information only) patient education programs for adults with asthma.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2002Pooled it
- Self-management education and regular practitioner review for adults with asthma.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2000Pooled it
- Randomised, double blind, placebo-controlled trial of selenium supplementation in adult asthma.Thorax · 2007Trial
- (Un)Awareness of allergy.The World Allergy Organization journal · 2011Article
- Comparative study of individual and traditional bedside metered-dose inhaler use and group teaching with video demonstration.Journal of pharmacology & pharmacotherapeutics · 2011Article
- Educational and behavioral interventions for asthma: who achieves which outcomes? A systematic review.Journal of asthma and allergy · 2010Article
- Review
- Pharmacoeconomic assessment of clinical pharmacist interventions for patients with moderate to severe asthma in outpatient clinics : experience in taiwan.Clinical drug investigation · 2004Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundAlthough patient education is a key step in the Australian Asthma Management Plan, its impact has not been assessed in a hospital outpatient asthma clinic.
methodsA controlled trial was undertaken in 125 adults with asthma recruited from the Alfred Hospital Asthma and Allergy Clinic and randomly allocated to an intervention (n = 64) or control (n = 61) group. Subjects in the intervention group attended three education sessions, each of 90 minutes duration, spread over three successive weeks. Asthma knowledge, quality of life, self-management skills, and attitudes and beliefs about asthma were assessed by questionnaires at baseline and after six months. The intervention group was also assessed immediately after the three education sessions. The control group was evaluated after six months of usual care.
resultsAsthma knowledge improved significantly in the intervention group after three education sessions (p = 0.0001) and this was retained six months later (p = 0.03). The impact of asthma on quality of life decreased significantly immediately after intervention (p = 0.03) but this was not maintained six months later (p = 0.35). On the other hand, the intervention had little impact on self-management skills or attitudes and beliefs about asthma. However, the control group had also improved their knowledge, quality of life and self-management skills after six months of usual care. The difference in mean change in knowledge score at six months between the intervention and control groups was not significant (p = 0.51).
conclusionsIn contrast to some other studies, a limited asthma education programme in a hospital outpatient setting had a positive impact on patients' knowledge of asthma, but not on their quality of life, self-management skills, or attitudes and beliefs about asthma.
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