Community health worker home visits for medicaid-enrolled children with asthma: Effects on asthma outcomes and costs

J.D. Campbell, M. Brooks, P. Hosokawa, J. Robinson, L. Song and J. Krieger

American Journal of Public Health, 2015, vol. 105, issue 11, 2366-2372

Abstract: Objectives. We sought to estimate the return on investment of a streamlined version of an evidence-based community health worker (CHW) asthma home visit program. Methods. We used a randomized parallel group trial of home visits by CHWs to Medicaid-enrolled children with uncontrolled asthma versus usual care. Results. A total of 373 participants enrolled in the study (182 in the intervention group and 191 in the control group, of whom 154 and 179, respectively, completed the study). The intervention group had greater improvements in asthma symptom-free days (2.10 days more over 2 weeks; 95% CI = 1.17, 3.05; P

Keywords: adolescent; age; asthma; caregiver; child; complication; controlled study; economics; female; health auxiliary; health care cost; health service; human; male; medicaid; organization and management; patient education; preschool child; professional practice; psychology; quality of life; randomized controlled trial; self care; single blind procedure; socioeconomics; United States; utilization, Adolescent; Age Factors; Asthma; Caregivers; Child; Child, Preschool; Community Health Workers; Female; Health Expenditures; Health Services; House Calls; Humans; Male; Medicaid; Patient Education as Topic; Quality of Life; Self Care; Single-Blind Method; Socioeconomic Factors; United States; Washington (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302685

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