Trial reportHealth education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education2008
Evaluation of Community Action Against Asthma: a community health worker intervention to improve children's asthma-related health by reducing household environmental triggers for asthma.
Trial report in Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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69 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 142 citations in OpenAlex.
- Patient navigator programmes for children and adolescents with chronic diseases.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Impact of Community Health Workers on Use of Healthcare Services in the United States: A Systematic Review.Journal of general internal medicine · 2017Pooled it
- Community coalition-driven interventions to reduce health disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- Exploring the role of community engagement in improving the health of disadvantaged populations: a systematic review.Global health action · 2015Pooled it
- Multilevel interventions and racial/ethnic health disparities.Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Monographs · 2012Pooled it
- Home-based educational interventions for children with asthma.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2011Pooled it
- Lay health workers in primary and community health care for maternal and child health and the management of infectious diseases.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2010Pooled it
- The role of lay health workers in pediatric chronic disease: a systematic review.Academic pediatricsPooled it
- Improving Adherence in Urban Youth With Asthma: Role of Community Health Workers.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice · 2022Trial
- Health effectiveness of community health workers as a diabetes self-management intervention.Diabetes & vascular disease research · 2017Trial
- Design of a pragmatic trial in minority children presenting to the emergency department with uncontrolled asthma: The CHICAGO Plan.Contemporary clinical trials · 2017Trial
- Challenges and Innovations in a Community-Based Participatory Randomized Controlled Trial.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2017Trial
- Results from a community-based trial testing a community health worker asthma intervention in Puerto Rican youth in Chicago.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2015Trial
- Using community health workers to improve clinical outcomes among people living with HIV: a randomized controlled trial.AIDS and behavior · 2013Trial
- Community health worker intervention to decrease cervical cancer disparities in Hispanic women.Journal of general internal medicine · 2010Trial
- A randomized controlled trial of asthma self-management support comparing clinic-based nurses and in-home community health workers: the Seattle-King County Healthy Homes II Project.Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine · 2009Trial
- Nurse case management and housing interventions reduce allergen exposures: the Milwaukee randomized controlled trial.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)Trial
- Implementation Lessons From a Randomized Trial Integrating Community Asthma Education for Children.The Journal of ambulatory care managementTrial
- What Really Happens in the Home: The Medication Environment of Urban, Minority Youth.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practiceTrial
- Co-Designing Peer Support Interventions for Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes and Their Caregivers: A Novel Integration of Community-Based Participatory Research and Human-Centred Design Thinking.Hormone research in paediatrics · 2026Article
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Abstract
This article describes the evaluation of a community-based participatory research (CBPR) community health worker (CHW) intervention to improve children's asthma-related health by reducing household environmental triggers for asthma. After randomization to an intervention or control group, 298 households in Detroit, Michigan, with a child, aged 7 to 11, with persistent asthma symptoms participated. The intervention was effective in increasing some of the measures of lung function (daily nadir Forced Expiratory Volume at one second [p = .03] and daily nadir Peak Flow [p = .02]), reducing the frequency of two symptoms ("cough that won't go away," "coughing with exercise"), reducing the proportion of children requiring unscheduled medical visits and reporting inadequate use of asthma controller medication, reducing caregiver report of depressive symptoms, reducing concentrations of dog allergen in the dust, and increasing some behaviors related to reducing indoor environmental triggers. The results suggest a CHW environmental intervention can improve children's asthma-related health, although the pathway for improvement is complex.
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