Randomized Trial of Interventions to Improve Childhood Asthma in Homes with Wood-burning Stoves.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Household air pollution due to biomass combustion for residential heating adversely affects vulnerable populations. Randomized controlled trials to improve indoor air quality in homes of children with asthma are limited, and no such studies have been conducted in homes using wood for heating.

Objectives

Our aims were to test the hypothesis that household-level interventions, specifically improved-technology wood-burning appliances or air-filtration devices, would improve health measures, in particular Pediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (PAQLQ) scores, relative to placebo, among children living with asthma in homes with wood-burning stoves.

Methods

A three-arm placebo-controlled randomized trial was conducted in homes with wood-burning stoves amo

SUBMITTER: Noonan CW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5915210 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature