Community Health Workers Linking Clinics and Schools and Asthma Control: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Childhood asthma is characterized by pervasive disparities, including 3-fold higher hospitalization rates and 7-fold higher death rates for Black children compared with White children. To address asthma disparities, one must intervene in all lived environments.

Objective

To determine if a community health worker (CHW) intervention to connect the primary care, home, and school for low-income minoritized school-aged children with asthma and their caregivers improves asthma control.

Design, setting, and participants

This study was a hybrid effectiveness/implementation trial using a 2 × 2 factorial, cluster randomized clinical trial design of 36 schools crossed with participant-level randomization into a clinic-based CHW intervention. The study was conducted fr

SUBMITTER: Bryant-Stephens T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11581744 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature