Evaluation of a web-based asthma management intervention program for urban teenagers: reaching the hard to reach.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Asthma interventions targeting urban adolescents are rare, despite a great need. Motivating adolescents to achieve better self-management of asthma is challenging, and the literature suggests that certain subgroups are more resistant than others. We conducted a school-based, randomized controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate Puff City, a Web-based, tailored asthma intervention, which included a referral coordinator, and incorporated theory-based strategies to target urban teens with characteristics previously found to be associated with lack of behavior change.

Methods

To identify eligible teens, we administered questionnaires on asthma diagnoses and symptoms to ninth through 12th graders of participating schools during a scheduled English class. We randomized eligible, c

SUBMITTER: Joseph CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3632347 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature