Asthma Management Survey of Participants in an Inner City Asthma Intervention

Matthew Sadof and Sylvia J. Brandt

No 14526, Working Paper Series from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Resource Economics

Abstract: Background : The Inner City Asthma Intervention (ICAI) was a national multi-center implementation of an evidence-based intervention to reduce asthma morbidity. Objective: This study describes mitigating behaviors and reported outcomes in families with asthma who completed the intervention and a post-intervention survey at one of the ICAI sites. Results: Eighty percent (0.72- 0.88, 95% confidence interval) of these families made five or more changes to mitigate exposure to environmental asthma triggers. The majority of families (0.84-0.96, 95% confidence interval) reported an improved awareness of asthma symptoms and less school absences, limitations of activity, unplanned doctor visits, and asthma related sleep disruption.

Keywords: Health; Economics; and; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27
Date: 2007
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/14526/files/wp070002.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:umamwp:14526

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.14526

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Paper Series from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Resource Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().