R M Allen|Michael Jones|Brian Oldenburg
Randomised trial of an asthma self-management programme for adults.
Royal North Shore Hospital|Royal North Shore Hospital|Royal North Shore Hospital
hospital based community service asthma education programme adults improve asthma knowledge promote compliance medication reduce morbidity evaluatedthe programme evaluated using randomised experimental control group design repeated measurements 12 months volunteer community sample 192 respondents recruited 116 satisfied inclusion criteria 12 month follow data obtained subjects intervention subjects attended four 25 hour education sessions weekly intervals asthma knowledge questionnaire administered compliance assessed diary records morbidity assessed retrospectively questionnaire prospectively diary objectively spirometry serial peak expiratory flow rate monitoring adequacy medical treatment also assessed data collected baseline immediately intervention three six nine 12 months interventionimprovements occurred knowledge compliance intervention group impact morbidity modest due least part inadequacy medical treatmenttreatment asthma reviewed optimised conjunction selfmanagement programmes order improve health outcomes