Leveraging Mobile Technology in a School-Based Participatory Asthma Intervention: Findings From the Student Media-Based Asthma Research Team (SMART) Study

Theory-Based Digital Interventions to Improve Asthma Self-Management Outcomes: Systematic Review (Preprint)

“…1). Of these 16 studies, 11 (69%) reported on randomised controlled trials (RCT) (10 two-arm RCTs [50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59], one three-arm RCT [60]) and 5 (31%) were feasibility studies employing a pre-post design [61][62][63][64][65] (Multimedia Apendix 2). Two of the RCTs reported on the same intervention [51,59], however, as they reported on different outcomes, and different uses of theory, we have considered them as separate interventions.…”

“…Six studies [51,56,60,62,64,65] found a significant positive effect of the intervention on asthma knowledge. One study reported an improvement in attitude scores on The Child…”

“…Knowledge of Asthma Management Questionnaire [51]; a modified version of the Consumer Asthma Knowledge Questionnaire [62]; an Asthma Knowledge test [53]; Paediatric Asthma Care Knowledge Survey [56]; the Child Knowledge of Asthma Management Questionnaire [59], and three-open ended questions [59]; the Child/Adolescent Student Asthma Knowledge Questionnaire [64]; open-ended question format to assess knowledge of purpose of controller medication [60]; and The Asthma Information Quiz (AIQ) [65]. Six studies [51,56,60,62,64,65] found a significant positive effect of the intervention on asthma knowledge.…”

“…These included the Partners in Health Scale [62], a validated measure of self-management behaviours, the Child Self-Management Instrument [51], Child Self-Efficacy Expectations measure [51], the use of writen action plans for managing asthma [57], the Asthma Belief Survey [64] and a 23-item questionnaire developed for the study to determine change in confidence in performing self-regulatory and asthma-specific behaviours, and an atribution classification questionnaire assessing self-management [59]. Three studies (3 RCTs and 1 pre-post study) reported a significant positive effect of the intervention on self-management behaviours [51,59,64] (Table 2). Table 2 shows the study characteristics in terms of clinical outcomes.…”

“…Validated measures included the Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (AQLQ) (n= 2; [52,63]), the Paediatric Quality of Life Questionnaire (PQLQ) (n=3; [53,56,64]), the Functional Status measure (FS II R) (n=1; [51]), and the mini AQLQ (n=1; [50]). Two studies developed a quality of life measure specific to their study [54,62].…”