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Using community priorities and misconceptions about asthma as a vessel for community-led education among Hispanics.

Sonia N JacomeChristian Lopez-PadillaDanielle MaderaJennifer PoloEun Ji KimSean DharJason J WangNegin Hajizadeh
Published in: The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma (2019)
Our community-led education, which included a tailored asthma educational tool and trained Asthma-Community-Leaders, successfully improved asthma knowledge among Hispanics. Further studies are warranted to determine whether these results are reproducible among a larger cohort and what the comparative effectiveness of our intervention as compared to other education-based interventions.
Keyphrases
  • healthcare
  • chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  • lung function
  • mental health
  • allergic rhinitis
  • quality improvement
  • randomized controlled trial
  • cystic fibrosis
  • air pollution
  • body composition
  • smoking cessation