Mosnaim Giselle S, Cohen Marc S, Rhoads Christopher H, Rittner Sarah Stuart, Powell Lynda H
Department of Immunology/Microbiology, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA.
Int J Behav Med. 2008;15(4):341-6. doi: 10.1080/10705500802365656.
Low-income African-American adolescents suffer a disproportionate burden of asthma morbidity.
To evaluate the ability of our intervention, the Adolescents' Disease Empowerment and Persistency Technology (ADEPT) for asthma, to increase asthma knowledge in our target population.
This was a 14-week (2-week run-in and 12-week treatment) randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study in which 28 inner-city African-American adolescents with asthma, between 10 and 18 years of age, were randomized to receive (1) celebrity asthma messages (experimental group), or (2) general health messages (control group) between music tracks on an MP3 player. The asthma messages were recorded by famous athletes, musicians, and other celebrities popular among this group of teenagers. Asthma knowledge, assessed by the ZAP Asthma Knowledge instrament, was collected pre- and post-intervention.
Mean improvement in ZAP score was significantly higher in the experimental group (8.1%, SD 7.2%) than the control group (0.4%, SD 7.2%) (p = 0.05).
These findings suggest that this may be an innovative and promising new approach to improving asthma outcomes in this difficult-to-reach population.
低收入非裔美国青少年哮喘发病率负担过重。
评估我们的干预措施——青少年疾病赋权与持续技术（ADEPT）哮喘项目，在目标人群中增加哮喘知识的能力。
这是一项为期14周（2周导入期和12周治疗期）的随机、双盲、安慰剂对照试验性研究，28名年龄在10至18岁之间、来自市中心的患有哮喘的非裔美国青少年被随机分为两组，分别在MP3播放器的音乐曲目之间接收：（1）名人哮喘信息（实验组），或（2）一般健康信息（对照组）。哮喘信息由著名运动员、音乐家和其他在这群青少年中受欢迎的名人录制。通过ZAP哮喘知识工具评估哮喘知识，在干预前后收集相关数据。
实验组ZAP评分的平均改善（8.1%，标准差7.2%）显著高于对照组（0.4%；标准差7.2%）（p = 0.05）。
这些研究结果表明，这可能是一种创新且有前景的新方法，用于改善这一难以接触到的人群的哮喘治疗效果。
