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EFFECTIVE INTERVENTION FOR ASTHMA
Leslie Boss, M.P.H., Ph.D.
Epidemiologist,
National Center for Environmental Health,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Slide #1: Effective Interventions for
Asthma
Leslie P. Boss, MPH, PhD
Air Pollution and Respiratory Health Branch
National Center for Environmental Health
CDC
lboss@cdc.gov
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Slide #2: Objective
- Share our approach to:
- Increasing availability of effective community interventions for
asthma
- Know what interventions existed
- Know the result of asthma intervention research activities from
the past
- Know what intervention research is currently ongoing
- Identify intervention gaps
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Slide #3: Asthma
- Roughly one in 17 Americans have asthma
- Traditionally addressed clinically
- Complex disease, challenging to diagnosis and treat
- Under diagnosed and under treated
- Behavior change needed
- People with asthma
- Parents of children with asthma
- Medical care providers
- Complex interventions
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Slide #4: Implementing Effective Interventions
- Such interventions have to exist
- Need to know about them
- Must be appropriate for the population in need of intervention
- Need to have access to the documented procedures and materials
- Need to have staff with necessary competencies for implementation
or provide training needed to meet the competencies
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Slide #5: Image: This slide describes
a circular connection among the following components: Intervention research,
identification of effective interventions, translation, widespread community
implementation, identification of intervention gaps, and defining needed
research.
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Slide #6: Widespread implementation (Shows
the same figure as in Slide #5)
- Rooted in the community
- Science-based
- Implemented as part of a comprehensive and integrated program
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Slide #7: Intervention gaps? (Shows the
same figure as in Slide #5)
- Are there populations in need of intervention for whom there appear
to be no effective interventions?
- If yes, is there already an effort underway to fill that gap?
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Slide #8: Is Additional Intervention
Research Needed? (Shows the same figure as in Slide #5)
- What interventions already exist?
- What intervention research is currently underway?
- Does that research have the potential to provide interventions for
populations in need?
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Slide #9: Intervention Research (Shows
the same figure as in Slide #5)
- Often funded by outside organization, usually NIH
- Positive health outcome
- Dissemination of results
- Research designed with translation in mind?
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Slide #10: Identification of Effective
Interventions (Shows the same figure as in Slide #5)
- Identified criteria for labeling interventions as effective
- 193 publications reviewed
- Initially 16 interventions identified as effective; now 43.
- Initially 2 of 16 ready to implement; now 5.
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Slide #11: Translation (Shows the same figure
as in Slide #5)
- Removes research elements;
- Modifies the protocol based on research findings;
- Updates materials;
- Develops components as needed;
- Assures that revised procedures and materials are widely available.
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Slide #12: Translated Interventions (Shows the
same figure as in Slide #5)
Intervention Site:
- Clinic/ED/hospital
- Wee Wheezers: Pre-school
- ACT for Kids (NCICAS): Young school
- ALA project: Adults
- Medical Home: Providers
- School
- Open Airways (RAP): Young school
- Power Breathing: Teens
- Home
- Wee Wheezers at Home: Pre-school
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Slide #13: Sharing the Information (Shows the
same figure as in Slide #5)
- Internet
- Summary of publications of effective intervention research
- Accessing intervention packages
- Case studies
- Bibliography
- Searchable database
- Ongoing intervention research
- E-mail, conferences, publications, etc.
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Slide #14: www.cdc.gov/nceh/airpollution/asthma/interventions/interventions.htm
(or go to www.cdc.gov/asthma,
And follow the trail to ‘Interventions”)
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