Objective: Community Health Workers (CHWs) have been effective in improving health outcomes in vulnerable communities by providing health education and management services. We review CHW-led asthma education and management interventions for children and their families. Next, we describe the selection and training of CHWs in pediatric asthma management in the Rhode Island Integrated Response Asthma Care Implementation Program (RI-AIR). Methods: We queried the MEDLine, Cochrane, PubMed, and EMBASE databases with keywords ("community health worker", "asthma", "health worker", "lay worker", "pediatric", "child", and "childhood") from inception until September 2019. Criteria for study inclusion included: published in English, conducted in the United States, approved with an ethics notification, published in peer-reviewed journal, and involved CHWs as the interventionists. The initial search identified 216 manuscripts. Fifteen studies met criteria for inclusion. Results: CHWs provide asthma management and education services, including home environmental trigger assessments, strategies to reduce environmental trigger exposure, resource linkage, and community referrals. We describe RI-AIR, and its CHW-led asthma education and management interventions. Conclusions: CHWs are effective and vital supports for positive asthma outcomes. More research is needed to guide models of intervention using CHWs, specifically addressing integration in interdisciplinary teams, training, and reimbursement for CHW services. Implications for Impact Statement: CHWs are effective in helping children with asthma and their families learn to manage asthma. It is important to develop programs that prepare CHWs to work with other medical professionals and health care models to pay for their services.
Objective: Community Health Workers (CHWs) have been effective in improving health outcomes in vulnerable communities by providing health education and management services. We review CHW-led asthma education and management interventions for children and their families. Next, we describe the selection and training of CHWs in pediatric asthma management in the Rhode Island Integrated Response Asthma Care Implementation Program (RI-AIR). Methods: We queried the MEDLine, Cochrane, PubMed, and EMBASE databases with keywords ("community health worker", "asthma", "health worker", "lay worker", "pediatric", "child", and "childhood") from inception until September 2019. Criteria for study inclusion included: published in English, conducted in the United States, approved with an ethics notification, published in peer-reviewed journal, and involved CHWs as the interventionists. The initial search identified 216 manuscripts. Fifteen studies met criteria for inclusion. Results: CHWs provide asthma management and education services, including home environmental trigger assessments, strategies to reduce environmental trigger exposure, resource linkage, and community referrals. We describe RI-AIR, and its CHW-led asthma education and management interventions. Conclusions: CHWs are effective and vital supports for positive asthma outcomes. More research is needed to guide models of intervention using CHWs, specifically addressing integration in interdisciplinary teams, training, and reimbursement for CHW services. Implications for Impact Statement: CHWs are effective in helping children with asthma and their families learn to manage asthma. It is important to develop programs that prepare CHWs to work with other medical professionals and health care models to pay for their services.
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asthma management; community health workers; pediatric asthma
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