title: Development and evaluation of an adult asthma self-management program: Wheezers Anonymous.
abstract: The efficacy of an adult asthma self-management program, Wheezers Anonymous (WA), was tested utilizing 79 adult asthmatic patients. Subjects were randomly assigned to a treatment or waiting-list control group. Baseline data gathered included measures of symptom severity, health-care utilization, knowledge of asthma, attitudes about asthma, and self-efficacy. All subjects completed the same measures 1, 2, and 3 months following the WA intervention. Knowledge about asthma increased in the treatment group relative to the waiting-list controls; the number of attacks decreased in the treatment group only, thus demonstrating the efficacy of the WA program.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001249:Asthma / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011897:Random Allocation; D012656:Self-Help Devices; D012657:Self-Help Groups; D014850:Waiting Lists