Studies & Reports
One of our core strategies at RAMP is to keep the asthma field abreast of best practices, timely opportunities, and emerging research in order to build capacity for reducing the inequitable burden of asthma. We do this by cultivating an extensive hub of asthma-related information across a wide range of topics, including asthma management and healthcare, housing, air pollution, schools, the built environment, and more.
The majority of studies and reports that you’ll see below were published by partner organizations, agencies, and research institutions. To specifically see resources created by RAMP, check out RAMP Tools & Publications.
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Intersectional Relationships Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adult Asthma
In the November 2020 edition of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, there is an article examining how “accumulated differentials in adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) may be associated with adult asthma by racial/ethnic groups.” To investigate, researchers used Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data from 2009 through 2012 to investigate “differences for…
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Declining Pediatric Emergency Department Visits for Asthma and COVID-19 Shut-downs
Researchers Simoneau et al from Boston Children’s Hospital just published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society their research on the impact of COVID-19 on emergency department utilization for asthma. After adjusting for year, weeks and time period (pre- or post- shutdown), they found a significantly decreased incidence of ED visits after the COVID-19-related…
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Learning Efficacy of Virtual Reality Simulation for Nursing Students Caring for Children with Asthma
The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health features an article in its November 2020 edition investigating the learning effects of virtual reality simulation for nursing students caring with children with asthma. Researchers compared three different educational modalities of nursing care, one with virtual reality simulation, one with high-fidelity simulation, and one with both.…
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Researchers Examine Impacts of Indoor Air Quality on Quality of Life
An article in the Journal of Architectural Engineering’s December 2020 issue examines “indoor air pollution and its effect on quality of life.” Specifically, it endeavored to “move beyond physical health and associate indoor air pollution to reduced psychological and social wellbeing.” In order to carry out the study, researchers monitored homes for samples of carbon…
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The Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Management of Asthma
The Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Management of Asthma Most articles addressing asthma and COVID-19 have looked at the relationship between the likelihood of acquiring the illness and the likelihood of severe illness outcomes. Taking a different approach, an article published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Practice in September, authors Oreskovic…
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One Study Shows Asthma Associated with Decreased Risk of COVID-19 in Children
The question of whether and how asthma and COVID-19 are related has been an ongoing question since the pandemic’s start. According to the American Academy of Asthma, Allergy, and Immunology, “Few data exist to indicate that having asthma is associated with an increased risk of becoming infected with COVID-19 or a more severe course. Recent…
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Wildfire Smoke Associated with Poorer COVID-19 Outcomes
Researchers published an article in the October edition of European Review of Medical and Pharmacological Sciences, looking at the impact of wildfire smoke on COVID-19 in San Francisco. The researchers looked at daily COVID-19 cases, deaths, particulate matter (PM-2.5 μm) and carbon monoxide from March 20, 2020 to Sept 16, 2020. They found that a…
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Study Assesses Impact of Household Intervention on Indoor Air Quality and Health of Children
The Journal of Environmental and Public Health contains an article in its August 2020 edition of a study that aimed “to examine the impact of the combined intervention with asthma education and air purifier[s] on IAQ and health outcomes in the US-Mexico border area.” To conduct the study, particulate matter levels were recorded throughout houses…