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Health Education & Behavior, Vol. 14, No. 3, 333-343 (1987)
DOI: 10.1177/109019818701400307

An Evaluation of Approaches to Asthma Self-Management Education for Adults: The AIR/Kaiser-Permanente Study

Sandra R. Wilson-Pessano

Institute for Health Care Research, American Institutes for Research, P.O. Box 1113, Palo Alto, CA 94302.

Peter Scamagas

Department of Allergy, Kaiser-Permanente Medical Group, 900 Kiely Blvd., Santa Clara, CA 95051

Gary M. Arsham

Institute for Health Care Research, American Institutes for Research, P.O. Box 1113, Palo Alto, CA 94302

Luis Chardon

Department of Allergy, Kaiser-Permanente Medical Group, 1150 Veterans Blvd., Redwood City, CA 94063

Stamatiki Coss

Department of Allergy, Kaiser-Permanente Medical Group, 2025 Morse Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95825

Donald F. German

Department of Allergy, Kaiser-Permanente Medical Group, 2200 O'Farrell, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94115

Gary W. Hughes

Department of Allergy, Kaiser-Permanente Medical Group, 5755 Cottle Road, San Jose, CA 95123

The purpose of the AIR/Kaiser-Permanente asthma project is to evaluate various approaches to the education of adults with asthma, identifying those types of patients for whom particular approaches are most cost effective. Critical self-management prac tices for adults with asthma were identified using the critical incident technique. An individualized and a group administered educational program are being developed to teach the identified critical skills, using the instructional models previously employed in AIR WISE and AIR POWER programs for children with asthma.

Three hundred patients with moderate to severe asthma from Northern California Kaiser-Permanente Medical Group clinics will participate in a trial of these programs. Patients will be randomly assigned to one of four conditions: One of two educational programs, an information/attention control, or a data-only control condition. Data will be collected on all patients for 15 months; health care utilization data covering a two-year period will be available from medical records. Program effectiveness will be evaluated in terms of pre-post changes in the patients' knowledge, attitudes, self-man agement practices, medical condition, daily functioning, and utilization of services. Cost effectiveness will be evaluated, paying specific attention to the cost effectiveness of different educational approaches for different types of patients.


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