Building Capacity to Assist Head Start Children with Asthma
PI - Noreen Clark
University of Michigan, School of Public Health
A randomized waitlist control study will be conducted in six Head Start agencies with 585 children with asthma to assess a collaborative and innovative approach to family education where agency staff also are enabled to support family efforts to manage asthma. It is expected that compared to control schools, caretakers and children participating in the program will exhibit: higher levels of asthma management, lower levels of asthma symptoms, higher levels of caretaker quality of life, and lower levels of emergency department visits and hospitalizations. Further it is expected that the intervention prototype as refined by the community partners will: provide a process for building Head Start organizational capacity to manage chronic conditions such as asthma; provide a framework for working in community partnerships; provide a manageable method for identifying children who might benefit from the family asthma management program that can be introduced widely in Detroit Head Start programs; serve as the basis for convening area Head Start personnel to develop a dissemination plan; and provide a procedures guide for implementing the intervention in additional Head Start agencies.
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