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Helping children gain asthma control: bundled school-based interventions.
1Cincinnati Health Department, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Pediatric Nursing
|August 10, 2013
Summary
A new collaborative aims to improve asthma control in inner-city children using evidence-based school interventions. This initiative builds on a successful quality improvement project for children with asthma in schools.
Area of Science:
- Pediatric Pulmonology
- Public Health Initiatives
- School Health Programs
Background:
- A prior quality improvement initiative successfully enhanced asthma outcomes for children within Cincinnati Public Schools' school-based health centers (SBHCs).
- Building on this success, a new collaborative was formed to expand asthma improvement efforts.
- The focus is on reaching inner-city children with asthma in various school settings, including those without SBHCs.
Purpose of the Study:
- To describe the plan for a new asthma improvement collaborative.
- To outline the strategy for spreading successful asthma interventions to a broader population of inner-city children.
- To detail the use of evidence-based, school-based interventions for improved asthma control.
Main Methods:
- Formation of a new asthma improvement collaborative.
- Implementation of bundled, evidence-based, school-based interventions.
- Utilization of a nurse practitioner to deliver interventions within schools.
Main Results:
- The abstract outlines the plan and methods, not the results.
- Further research is needed to evaluate the outcomes of this collaborative.
Conclusions:
- The collaborative aims to replicate and expand upon the success of previous asthma quality improvement efforts.
- School-based interventions delivered by nurse practitioners are central to the plan for improving asthma control in underserved populations.
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