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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Article Examines Effect of Location on Daily Exposures to Particulate Matter
The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health has released an article in their December 2019 edition examining the differences of particulate matter concentration based on location. To investigate this, researchers worked with eighteen youth participants from different neighborhoods wearing portable particulate matter monitors. The amount of particulate matter they were exposed to was…
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Impacts of Particulate Matter on Asthma Patient Quality of Life
The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health included an article in its July 2019 edition examining the effects of higher concentrations of particulate matter on the quality of life for patients with asthma. Researchers recorded particulate matter concentrations for three hundred adult asthma patients for two weeks. They then gave an Asthma Quality…
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Study Examines Effectiveness of Step-Up Therapy in Black Children and Adults with Asthma
The September 2019 volume of the New England Journal of Medicine contains an article examining the impacts of long-acting beta-agonist (LABA) and increased glucocorticoids in black patients. Researchers conducted two prospective, randomized, double-blind trials, one with children and the other with adolescents and adults. Children’s Hospital of Oakland was one of the sites for this…
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Study Investigates Ventilation Rates in California Classrooms
An article published in the January 2020 volume of Building and Environment investigates recent retrofits of HVAC equipment for proper ventilation rates in California schools. Researchers measured CO2 concentration, room and supply air temperature, relative humidity, and door opening in 104 classrooms that had been retrofitted with new HVAC units. They found that 51% of…
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Effects of Community Health Workers on Asthma Health Outcomes
In the July 2019 edition of BMC Public Health, researchers examine the effects of community health workers on health outcomes of children with asthma. In order to investigate the impacts, 290 participants were split into an intervention group and a control group. The intervention group received educational intervention led by community health workers. When the…
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Study Examines Public School Teacher Asthma Education
A 2019 study in Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonology examines the knowledge of public-school teachers as it relates to “asthma self-carry and self-administration laws and policies and trainings received related to general chronic health conditions including asthma.” Researchers collected data from 593 teachers. Teachers reported “little training received at either undergraduate or graduate levels.” Some…
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Researchers Study Connections Between Depression, Anxiety, and Asthma-Related Emergency Department Visits
In the October 2019 edition of Pediatrics, researchers examine the relation between anxiety and depression and asthma-related emergency department use. The study utilized the information of 65,342 “patients aged 6 to 21 years with asthma.” They found that 24.7% of the patients also “had a diagnosis of anxiety, depression, or both.” After controlling for age,…
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The Impacts of Interactions of Neighborhood Social Conditions and Family Relationships on Childhood Asthma
The August 2019 edition of Pediatrics contains an article examining how neighborhood social conditions and family relationships can affect childhood asthma. Youth diagnosed with asthma had the neighborhood conditions around their homes coded to see if they were dangerous and/or disorderly. They also interviewed the children to assess family relationship quality. Researchers found “significant interactions”…