Improvement of Rural Children's Asthma Self-Management by Lay Health Educators

Autor/inn/en	Horner, Sharon D.; Fouladi, Rachel T.
Titel	Improvement of Rural Children's Asthma Self-Management by Lay Health Educators
Quelle	In: Journal of School Health, 78 (2008) 9, S.506-513 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-4391
DOI	10.1111/j.1746-1561.2008.00336.x
Schlagwörter	Intervention; Comprehensive School Health Education; Health Promotion; Self Efficacy; Diseases; Self Management; Rural Areas; Elementary School Students; Chronic Illness; White Students; Hispanic American Students; African American Students; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Program Effectiveness; Behavior Change; Skill Development; Problem Solving; Racial Differences; Gender Differences; Age Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gesundheitsfürsorge; Gesundheitshilfe; Reihenuntersuchung; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Disease; Krankheit; Selbstmanagement; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Chronic disease; Chronische Krankheit; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Student; Students; Hispanoamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; African Americans; Afroamerikaner; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Problemlösen; Rassenunterschied; Geschlechterkonflikt; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied
Abstract	Background: The purpose of the present analysis is to examine changes in rural children's asthma self-management after they received lay health educator (LHE)-delivered classes. Methods: Elementary schools were randomly assigned to the treatment or attention-control condition and their participating students received either asthma education or general health promotion education, respectively. The triethnic sample was composed of 183 children (46% Hispanic, 29.5% non-Hispanic white, 22% African American, and 2.6% other categories) who had a mean age of 8.78 years (SD = 1.24). The time frame from baseline to postintervention was 12 weeks. Results: Repeated measures analysis of variance found main effects in changes in scores for children's asthma knowledge, asthma self-management, self-efficacy for managing asthma symptoms, and metered dose inhaler (MDI) technique and significant group interaction effects for the treatment intervention on the measures of children's asthma knowledge, asthma self-management, and MDI technique. Conclusions: The delivery of an asthma health education intervention by trained LHEs to school-aged children was an effective means for improving children's knowledge and skills in asthma self-management. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10