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ArticlePediatric allergy, immunology, and pulmonology2012

Availability of Asthma Quick Relief Medication in Five Alabama School Systems.

Joe K Gerald, Nancy Stroupe, Leslie A McClure, Lani Wheeler, Lynn B Gerald

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Article in Pediatric allergy, immunology, and pulmonology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. A Mixed-methods Study Examining Inhaler Carry and Use among Children at School.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2020
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  11. Student perspectives on asthma management in schools: a mixed-methods study examining experiences, facilitators, and barriers to care.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2019
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  13. Evaluation and treatment of critical asthma syndrome in children.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2015
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  17. Medication Use in Schools: Current Trends, Challenges, and Best Practices.The journal of pediatric pharmacology and therapeutics : JPPT : the official journal of PPAG
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  18. Assessing children's readiness to carry and use quick-relief inhalers.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Joe K Gerald
Nancy Stroupe
Leslie A McClure
Lani Wheeler
Lynn B Gerald
University of Arizona · USUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesThis paper documents individual asthma action plan presence and quick relief medication (albuterol) availability for elementary students enrolled in five Alabama school systems. PATIENTS AND

methodsData were obtained during baseline data collection (fall 2005) of a school-based supervised asthma medication trial. All students attended 1 of 36 participating elementary schools across five school systems in Jefferson County, Alabama. In addition, they had to have physician-diagnosed asthma requiring daily controller medication. Each school system had its own superintendent and elected school board. Asthma action plan presence and albuterol availability was confirmed by study personnel. Asthma action plans had to contain daily and acute asthma management instructions. Predictors of asthma action plan presence and albuterol availability were also investigated. Associations between albuterol availability and self-reported characteristics including health care utilization prior to study enrollment and outcomes during the study baseline period were also investigated.

resultsEnrolled students had a mean (SD) age of 11.0 (2.1) years, 91% were African American, and 79% had moderate persistent asthma. No student had a complete asthma action plan on file and only 14% had albuterol physically available at school. Albuterol availability was not predicted by gender, race, insurance status, second-hand smoke exposure, need for pre-exercise albuterol, asthma severity, or self-reported health care utilization prior to study enrollment. Albuterol availability did not predict school absences, red/yellow peak flow recordings, or medication adherence during the study's baseline period.

conclusionDespite policies permitting students to possess albuterol, few elementary students across five independent school systems in Alabama actually had it readily available at school.

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PMID22454787
PMCPMC3306583
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