title: Can older adult volunteers serve effectively to improve asthma management for children? Experience Corps Baltimore.
abstract: The present study was conducted to determine whether older adults can learn and retain information on asthma and play a role as community health workers to teach children about asthma. A total of 36 older adults and 28 students in grades K-6 participated. Pre-tests and post-tests were administered to participants. Improvement in older adult scores after training was significant (p = .001), and improvement persisted through the conclusion of teaching sessions (p = 0.001). The increase in lower student scores was significant (p = 0.050). Results suggest that older adults can learn and retain asthma information and schoolchildren can learn asthma-related information taught by older adults.
authors: Center on Aging and Health, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Baltimore, MD 21224, USA. dreddy1@gmail.com
authors: Deepthi M
authors: DM
authors: Reddy
authors: Linda P
authors: LP
authors: Fried
authors: Cynthia
authors: C
authors: Rand
authors: Sylvia
authors: S
authors: McGill
authors: Crystal F
authors: CF
authors: Simpson
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001249:Asthma / Q000628:therapy*; D015142:Baltimore; D002648:Child; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D014838:Volunteers / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology