|
Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
|
Using Action Research to Implement an Integrated Pediatric Asthma Case Management and eHealth Intervention for Low-Income Families
Meg Wise, PhD*,
Alice Pulvermacher, MS,
Kathleen Kelly Shanovich, BSN, MS,
David H. Gustafson, PhD,
Christine Sorkness, PharmD,
and
Abhik Bhattacharya, PhD
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mewise{at}wisc.edu.
 |
Abstract |
|---|
Asthma case management and education programs improve pediatric asthma outcomes, but designing rigorous randomized controlled studies that accurately measure effects while encouraging parent participation is challenging. This is especially so for low-income African American families, who face significantly more severe asthma and social stress than their middle-class counterparts. Action research can help health education researchers negotiate between the elegant and complex designs favored by scientists with the real-life challenges of recruitment, implementation, and retention. This article discusses how a multidisciplinary team uses action research concepts to continuously adjust originally proposed protocols through the planning and implementation phases to encourage participation in a year-long randomized controlled trial of a program that combines telephone asthma case management and comprehensive online asthma education. As a result of these efforts, a higher proportion of low-income African American families are recruited into the study than originally proposed.
First published on June 10, 2009
Health Promotion Practice 2009, doi:10.1177/1524839909334621
 CiteULike  Complore  Connotea  Del.icio.us  Digg  Reddit  Technorati  Twitter What's this?
|
|
