Small-group, interactive education and the effect on asthma control by children and their families.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Effective approaches to education about asthma need to be identified. We evaluated the impact on asthma control by children and their caregivers of an intervention involving small-group, interactive education about asthma.

Methods

We randomly assigned children who visited an emergency department for an exacerbation of asthma (n = 398) to either of 2 groups. Children assigned to the control group followed the usual care recommended by their primary care physician. Those assigned to the intervention group participated in a small-group, interactive program of education about asthma. We examined changes in the number of visits to the emergency department during the year after the intervention.

Results

During the year after enrolment, children in the interventio

SUBMITTER: Watson WT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2734203 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature