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Grant Title: Adolescent Asthma Education and
Prevention: An Integrated Approach Through Problem
Solving, Literacy, and Health Care
Principal Investigator: Adrian M. Casillas, M.D.
Project Dates: February 15, 2000 - February 14, 2002
Abstract
The Project is designed to demonstrate a novel
model of asthma education and management based on three tenets. First, the
Project will show that asthma education can be successfully modeled through a
problem-solving approach that is realistic, meets the individual needs of
children with asthma and their caregivers, and provides an easily
understandable means of feedback to reinforce the learning process. Second, it
will document enhanced literacy through proven means and demonstrate that this
aspect of education is directly related to an improved awareness of asthma
management. Last, it will provide a means to follow up on children with asthma
identified through the program to ensure that proper medical care and clinical
parameters are being maintained to a high degree of care.
Project staff will integrate three complementary programs to provide asthma
education and prevention in adolescents with asthma in both the Lennox and
King/Drew Pediatric Asthma communities:
UCLA/IMMEX Project
Learning to manage simulated asthma situations by using
software modules and exploring problem-solving strategies;
King/Drew Asthma Reading Advocacy Program
Improving literacy and learning about asthma through
the Asthma Education Curriculum; and
UCLA Medical Student/Physician Asthma Care Program
Monitoring asthma management through medical histories,
physical examinations, and follow-up on examinations.
Specific aims of this asthma education and prevention project are to:
Continue to develop clinically relevant asthma case simulations specifically designed for
school-age children and their parents.
Implement the computer-based case simulations designed for teaching and assessment
in school- and hospital-based community health centers.
Train Lennox- and King/Drew-site facilitators on how to interpret the software
performance data of the children and their parents and provide
feedback to both the participants and the community health
care facilities and providers.
Enable Internet accessibility for problem delivery and assessment.
Provide literacy training coupled with the asthma education program for children with asthma
in the service area.
Provide adequate medical follow-up for the children in the program areas.
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