Abstract
Background: Asthma rates in Chicago exceed national averages and disproportionately affect minority adolescents. We collaborated with students in a neighborhood with high asthma prevalence to better understand community factors impacting asthma. Objectives: To evaluate the impact of our Student Mediabased Asthma Research Team (SMART) program on student, parent, and student-peer outcomes related to asthma. Methods: Students with asthma (n = 11), their parents (n = 9), and student-peers (n = 91) participated in a schoolbased asthma intervention grounded in community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles and completed multiple pre-/post-intervention questionnaires. Results: After the program, participants significantly increased (p < 0.05) asthma-related quality of life (QOL), asthma control, emotional support, and empowerment. Parents significantly increased their QOL and student-peers showed significant improvements in asthma knowledge. Conclusions: This novel intervention—which used participatory media as a vehicle through which children learn about their own asthma and share their findings with parents and peers—was successful in engaging adolescents to improve asthma management and community support.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 523-532 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 1 2016 |
Funding
The authors thank the American Lung Association (ALA) for their support of the study. The SMART project was supported by an ALA Social Behavioral Research Grant Program (R03). We also thank all the students and families that participated and partnered with our team on the SMART study and the staff and administrators at the school who made the project possible. The SMART study was conducted with the support of SMART session volunteers and would not have been possible without the help of Jasmine James, Zoe Lukens, Brittney Mason-Hirner, Allison Ducharme-Smith, Victoria Rivkina, and Erinma Ukoha. Finally, we thank the session guest presenters for coming to the school and sharing their expertise, including, Dr. Lisa Sharp, Dr. Valerie Press, Edward Kim, and Althera Steens.
Keywords
- Community-based participatory research
- Health promotion
- Lung diseases
- Parents
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Health(social science)
- Education
- Sociology and Political Science