HomeBASE: Home-based education and support intervention for reducing asthma mortality
HomeBASE, is a research project funded by National Institutes of Health. The study is designed to assess the value of a home-based education and support intervention for reducing asthma mortality and urgent health service utilization among 420 low-income and ethnically diverse adults with asthma, ages 18-65 years in King County. Community health workers deliver the interventions. Eligible participants receive a basic medical assessment including home spirometry and optional skin testing at the University of Washington. They also receive a home environmental assessment to identify asthma triggers that can precipitate asthma attacks and are supplied with allergen impermeable bedding encasements, vacuums and cleaning kits as needed. These evaluations are followed up by three in-home visits. At each home visit an action plan is created to identify areas of change that will improve over-all asthma control. Each participant is enrolled in the project for one year.
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