PMID: 9192924Jun 1, 1997Paper

Asthma self-management programmes in a population of Italian children: a multicentric study. Italian Study Group on Asthma Self-Management Programmes

The European Respiratory Journal
R RonchettiM P Villa

Abstract

This study was designed to answer three main questions: 1) Does asthma self-management education reduce asthma morbidity? 2) Are the two programmes "Living With Asthma" and "Open Airways" equally effective in doing so? 3) Is a shortened version of these programmes (4 weeks) as effective as the longer original programme (8 weeks)? Twelve Italian centres of paediatric bronchopneumology selected 312 children with asthma, who were stratified by disease severity, gender and age, and then randomly assigned to an Experimental group which received an educational programme or to a Comparison group, which did not. Of the 312 children selected, 209 (114 Experimental and 95 Comparison) completed the educational protocol and a 1 year follow-up. Data recorded during the last 2 months of follow-up, 10 months after the educational intervention, showed that the Experimental group required significantly fewer emergency treatments: this reduction was more evident in the more severe asthma cases. In the Experimental, but not in the Comparison group, patients with more severe asthma consumed more medications than patients with milder asthma "Open Airways" yielded, in some cases, better results than "Living with Asthma": but a type 2 error is possib...Continue Reading

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