Trial reportThe Journal of school health2006
Outcomes for a comprehensive school-based asthma management program.
Trial report in The Journal of school health, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- School-based self-management interventions for asthma among primary school children: a systematic review.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2021Pooled it
- School-based self-management interventions for asthma in children and adolescents: a mixed methods systematic review.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Asthma education for school staff.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Implementing supported self-management for asthma: a systematic review and suggested hierarchy of evidence of implementation studies.BMC medicine · 2015Pooled it
- Do school-based asthma education programs improve self-management and health outcomes?Pediatrics · 2009Pooled it
- Interventions for educating children who are at risk of asthma-related emergency department attendance.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2009Pooled it
- Effects of asthma education on children's use of acute care services: a meta-analysis.Pediatrics · 2008Pooled it
- Effects of a school-based intervention for urban adolescents with asthma. A controlled trial.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2011Trial
- Small-group, interactive education and the effect on asthma control by children and their families.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2009Trial
- Increasing adherence to inhaled steroid therapy among schoolchildren: randomized, controlled trial of school-based supervised asthma therapy.Pediatrics · 2009Trial
- Design of the supervised asthma therapy study: implementing an adherence intervention in urban elementary schools.Contemporary clinical trials · 2008Trial
- One-session asthma curriculum for all K-8th grade students: impact on knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy.Frontiers in allergy · 2026Article
- Health Effects of Desert Dust Storms in Children With Asthma: Knowledge, Perceptions and Practices of School Health Visitors in Cyprus.Nursing research and practice · 2025Article
- Stock Inhalers: A Qualitative Data Analysis of Illinois Health Policy Trials and Triumphs.The Journal of school health · 2024Article
- Addressing critical barriers for sustainability of asthma stock inhaler policy implementation and resultant programming.Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology · 2024Article
- Alignment of stakeholder agendas to facilitate the adoption of school-supervised asthma therapy.Pediatric pulmonology · 2020Article
- Developing a theory-based multimedia intervention for schools to improve young people's asthma: my asthma in school (MAIS).Pilot and feasibility studies · 2020Article
- A multicomponent school-based asthma management program: enhancing connections to clinical care.The Journal of school health · 2015Article
- Roles of the state asthma program in implementing multicomponent, school-based asthma interventions.The Journal of school health · 2013Article
- My child is diagnosed with asthma, now what?: motivating parents to help their children control asthma.The Journal of school nursing : the official publication of the National Association of School Nurses · 2011Article
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Abstract
This article describes the evaluation of a comprehensive school-based asthma management program in an inner-city, largely African-American school system. All 54 elementary schools (combined enrollment 13,247 students) from a single urban school system participated in this study. Schools were randomly divided between immediate and delayed intervention programs. The intervention consisted of 3 separate educational programs (for school faculty/staff, students with asthma, and peers without asthma) and medical management for the children with asthma (including an Individual Asthma Action Plan, medications, and peakflow meters). Children with asthma were identified using a case detection program and 736 were enrolled into the intervention study. No significant differences were observed in school absences, grade point average, emergency room visits, or hospitalizations between the immediate and delayed intervention groups. Significant increases in knowledge were observed in the immediate intervention group. This study of a school-based asthma management education and medical intervention program did not show any differences between the intervention and control groups on morbidity outcomes. Our experience leads us to believe that such measures are difficult to impact and are not always reliable. Future researchers should be aware of the problems associated with using such measures. In addition, connecting children with a regular source of health care in this population was difficult. More intensive methods of medical management, such as school-based health centers or supervised asthma therapy, might prove more effective in inner-city schools.
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