The School Inner-City Asthma Intervention Study: Design, rationale, methods, and lessons learned.

ABSTRACT: Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood in the United States, causes significant morbidity, particularly in the inner-city, and accounts for billions of dollars in health care utilization. Home environments are established sources of exposure that exacerbate symptoms and home-based interventions are effective. However, elementary school children spend 7 to 12h a day in school, primarily in one classroom. From the observational School Inner-City Asthma Study we learned that student classroom-specific exposures are associated with worsening asthma symptoms and decline in lung function. We now embark on a randomized, blinded, sham-controlled school environmental intervention trial, built on our extensively established school/community partnerships, to determine the efficacy of

SUBMITTER: Phipatanakul W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5557648 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature