Effectiveness of a community-driven, asthma intervention: project asthma in-home response.

Project Asthma In-home Response (AIR) is a multilevel, home-based intervention to address childhood asthma. This study aims to assess the effectiveness of the community-driven, multilevel Project AIR intervention. We hypothesize that children participating in the Project AIR intervention will have reduced asthma-related emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and asthma exacerbations. Seventy-Five participants of an in-home asthma intervention were surveyed at the onset of intervention and six months after the intervention. The mean age of clients in the sample population was ten years. Most clients in the sample population were 11-15 years old (34.7%), followed by 6-10 years old (29.3%) and 3-5 years (26.0%). Participation in the Project AIR intervention resulted in significant reductions in asthma attacks (-value 0.0003), asthma-related emergency room visits (-value > 0.0001), and asthma-related hospitalizations (-value 0.008). The results of this study support that in-home environmental asthma programs are an efficient method of treating asthma in a smaller metro area. Our findings reinforce prior studies in larger metropolitan areas such as New York and Boston.