Interventions to enhance the adoption of asthma self-management behaviour in the South Asian and African American population: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: South Asian and other minority communities suffer poorer asthma outcomes, have a higher rate of unscheduled care and benefit less from most existing self-management interventions when compared to the majority population. Possible reasons for these differences include failure to implement asthma self-management strategies, or that strategies implemented were inappropriate for their needs; alternatively, they may relate to the minority and/or lower socioeconomic status of these populations. We aimed to synthesise evidence from randomised controlled trials for asthma self-management in South Asian and Black populations from different sociocultural contexts, and identify barriers and facilitators to implementing self-management. We systematically searched eight electronic databases, and resear

SUBMITTER: Ahmed S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5814446 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature