Abstract
Purpose: The purpose was to evaluate the effectiveness of Staying Healthy-Asthma Responsible & Prepared, an academic asthma health education and counseling program, on fostering the use of effective asthma self-care behaviors. Design and Methods: This was a phase III, two-group, cluster randomized, single-blinded, longitudinal design-guided study. Caregivers of 205 fourth- and fifth-grade students completed the asthma health behaviors survey at preintervention, and 1, 12, and 24 months postintervention. Analysis involved multilevel modeling. Results: All students demonstrated improvement in episode management, risk reduction/prevention, and health promotion behaviors; Staying Healthy-Asthma Responsible & Prepared students demonstrated increased improvement in episode management and risk reduction/prevention behaviors. Practice Implications: Working with schoolteachers, nurses can improve the use of effective asthma self-care behaviors.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 62-75 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2015 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2014, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Keywords
- Adaptation
- Adjustment
- Condition management
- Episode management
- Health promotion
- Intervention
- Pediatric
- Prevention
- Quality of life
- Randomized control trial
- Risk reduction
- Self-management