 Reductions in hospital use from self management training for chronic asthmaticsC. S. Ghosh, P. Ravindran, M. Joshi and Sally Stearns () Social Science & Medicine, 1998, vol. 46, issue 8, 1087-1093 Abstract: The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of asthma Self Management Training on the health status and resource use of patients with chronic asthma. The study consisted of a randomized control design of chronic asthmatic patients in a tertiary care center in India. The intervention group (153 patients) received four training sessions in addition to the regular care provided to the control group (150 patients). Health status and resource use were measured at baseline and over a one year follow-up period. The intervention group had significantly better health status (measured by breathing ability), fewer productive days lost, and lower resource use (hospitalizations and emergency room visits) than the control group. Total annual costs (direct and indirect) were also lower, though physician costs were not included in the assessment. Therefore, incorporation of asthma Self Management Training as part of clinical management of asthma can result in improvements in health status and reductions in hospital use. Keywords: chronic; bronchial; asthma; randomized; trial; cost; effectiveness; analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:socmed:v:46:y:1998:i:8:p:1087-1093 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Social Science & Medicine is currently edited by Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian More articles in Social Science & Medicine from Elsevier |
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