Can older adult volunteers serve effectively to improve asthma management for children? Experience corps® Baltimore

Deepthi M. Reddy; Linda P. Fried; Cynthia Rand; Sylvia McGill; Crystal F. Simpson

doi:10.1080/02770900701209673

Can older adult volunteers serve effectively to improve asthma management for children? Experience corps® Baltimore

Deepthi M. Reddy, Linda P. Fried, Cynthia Rand, Sylvia McGill, Crystal F. Simpson

School of Medicine

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	177-181
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Asthma
Volume	44
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/02770900701209673
State	Published - Apr 2007

Keywords

Asthma
Experience Corps
Older adults
Schoolchildren
Volunteers

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
Immunology and Allergy
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

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