Randomized controlled trial to improve care for urban children with asthma: results of the School-Based Asthma Therapy trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the impact of the School-Based Asthma Therapy trial on asthma symptoms among urban children with persistent asthma.

Design

Randomized trial, with children stratified by smoke exposure in the home and randomized to a school-based care group or a usual care control group.

Setting

Rochester, New York.

Participants

Children aged 3 to 10 years with persistent asthma.

Interventions

Directly observed administration of daily preventive asthma medications by school nurses (with dose adjustments according to National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Expert Panel guidelines) and a home-based environmental tobacco smoke reduction program for smoke-exposed children, using motivational interviewing.

Main outcome measure

Mean number of symp

SUBMITTER: Halterman JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3600609 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature