title: Behavioral interventions to improve asthma outcomes: a systematic review of recent publications.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Asthma outcomes are influenced by factors at multiple ecological levels: the individual and his/her family, home, medical care, and community. This systematic review describes recently published single-level and multilevel behavioral interventions to improve asthma outcomes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 23 total title/abstracts reviewed in the original systematic search of PubMed, Ovid, Scopus, PsychINFO, and CIHAHL reference review databases, six met inclusion criteria. Five of the studies focused on low-income and/or minority populations. Promising interventions include culturally tailored online asthma self-management programs and family-centered asthma education delivered at the bedside during hospitalization for an acute asthma exacerbation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Culturally, tailored online self-management programs offer difficult-to-reach populations asthma support that can be completed at the time and pace most convenient for the individual user. Family-focused asthma education, delivered at the bedside during an acute asthma hospitalization by highly motivated lay volunteers, is an efficacious and low-cost approach to improving pediatric asthma self-management.
authors.affiliation: NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
authors.forename: Giselle S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Mosnaim
authors.forename: Esra
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Akkoyun
authors.forename: Joshua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Eng
authors.forename: Madeleine U
authors.initials: MU
authors.lastname: Shalowitz
mesh_terms: D001249:Asthma / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D020375:Education, Distance; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D057285:Precision Medicine; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D000073278:Self-Management; D014838:Volunteers