Community health worker home visits for adults with uncontrolled asthma: the HomeBASE Trial randomized clinical trial.

Importance: Asthma is often poorly controlled. Home visitation by community health workers (CHWs) to improve control among adults has not been adequately evaluated.

Objective: To test the hypothesis that CHW home visits for adults with uncontrolled asthma improve outcomes relative to usual care.

Effect of weatherization combined with community health worker in-home education on asthma control.

Objectives: We assessed the benefits of adding weatherization-plus-health interventions to an in-home, community health worker (CHW) education program on asthma control.

Methods: We used a quasi-experimental design to compare study group homes (n = 34) receiving CHW education and weatherization-plus-health structural interventions with historical comparison group homes (n = 68) receiving only education. Data were collected in King County, Washington, from October 2009 to September 2010.