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QUESTION: What is the effectiveness of an educational intervention for parents of pre-school children who have had a recent episode of acute asthma?
Design
Randomised {allocation concealed*}†, blinded {clinicians, participants, data collectors, and outcome assessors}†,* controlled trial with 1 year of follow up.
Setting
2 children’s hospitals in England, UK (Leicester and Manchester).
Patients
200 children between 18 months and 5 years (median age 32 mo, 67% boys) were recruited at the time of admission to a children’s ward or at attendance at an accident and emergency department (AED) or children’s assessment unit (CAU) with a primary diagnosis of acute severe asthma or wheezing. Follow up was 94%.
Intervention
Children were allocated to an intervention group (n=99) or a control group (n=101). The intervention included a general educational booklet about …
Footnotes
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Source of funding: NHS Executive Mother and Child Health Programme.
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For correspondence: Professor M Silverman, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK. ms70{at}le.ac.uk
↵† Information provided by author.