Enhanced access to healthcare utilization data through medical record review: Lessons learned from a community-based, multi-site project.

Collecting accurate healthcare utilization (HCU) data on community-based interventions is essential to establishing their clinical effectiveness and cost-related impact. Strategies used to enhance receiving medical records for HCU data extraction in a multi-site longitudinal randomized control trial with urban adolescents are presented. Successful strategies included timely assessment of procedures and practice preferences for access to electronic health records and hardcopy medical charts.

Fidelity of a peer-led asthma self-management intervention and its attention control in a multisite study of urban adolescents.

In this paper we compare the fidelity of a Peer-Led Asthma Self-Management Program for Adolescents (PLASMA) and its attention control. A randomized controlled trial involving two groups-the PLASMA group and the attention control group-was conducted between 2015 and 2018. Adolescents 12-17 years old (N = 259) in three cities in the United States received asthma self-management education implemented at a day camp, followed by bi-monthly, follow-up contact for 12 months.

Associations between overweight and obesity and asthma outcomes in urban adolescents.

To examine the prevalence of overweight and obesity in urban adolescents with asthma and to investigate the relationships between anthropometric measures and asthma outcomes including quality of life, asthma control and lung function. Adolescents with an asthma diagnosis, 12-20 years-old, were recruited from three urban communities in the United States. Spirometry and anthropometric data including height, weight and waist circumferences were collected along with questionnaire data measuring quality of life, asthma control, and medication adherence.

Evaluation of a Peer-led Asthma Self-management Group Intervention for Urban Adolescents.

Purpose: This paper describes the acceptability and generalizability of an evidenced-based peer-led asthma self-management program.

Design And Methods: Adolescents with persistent asthma (n = 259, ages 12-17 years) from three urban cities participated in a one day camp led by either trained peer leaders (n = 35, ages 16-20 years; intervention group) or healthcare professionals (control group). Participants completed a camp evaluation form, and the peer leader quality survey.

Common allergies in urban adolescents and their relationships with asthma control and healthcare utilization.

Background: Urban adolescents suffer a disproportionate burden of asthma morbidity, often in association with allergies. Literature is limited on comparing various types of allergies regarding prevalence and associations with asthma morbidity in urban dwelling adolescents. The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of common allergies reported by urban adolescents and to assess their relationships to healthcare utilization and asthma control.

Recruitment and retention strategies for an urban adolescent study: Lessons learned from a multi-center study of community-based asthma self-management intervention for adolescents.

Intervention studies with urban adolescents and families affected by asthma are critical to improving the disproportionate morbidity in this population. Community-based recruitment and retention strategies in a multi-site longitudinal project evaluating an asthma self-management intervention for adolescents are presented. Successful recruitment strategies depended on the geographic and cultural characteristics of each study site.

Changes in asthma self-management knowledge in inner city adolescents following developmentally sensitive self-management training.

Objective: To evaluate efficacy of a developmentally sensitive curriculum for improving asthma self-management knowledge, attitude, and self-efficacy in adolescents.

Methods: Fourty-two inner-city adolescents (ages 16-20) participated in a 12hour asthma self-management training program. Self-management knowledge, attitude toward asthma, and asthma-related self-efficacy were measured using short-answer tests before and after training.

The longitudinal association of young children's everyday routines to sleep duration.

Introduction: Everyday routines promote children's health. In the present study, we examined whether children's participation in everyday routines at ages 4 and 6 years predicted their sleep duration at age 6 years.

Method: A secondary analysis of data was performed for 177 families who participated in the Rochester Preschool Children Injuries Study.