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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Implications of Proposed Changes to Public Charge Immigration Rules on Children
In JAMA Pediatrics’ July 2019 edition, an article looks at the implications of the proposed rule changes to federal “Public Charge” guidelines utilized in the immigration process. “The proposed changes are expected to cause many immigrant parents to disenroll their families from safety-net programs, in large part because of fear and confusion about the rule,…
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Study Examines Inhaler Carry and Use Among Children at School
The July 2019 Journal of Asthma contains an article examining the “factors associated with inhaler self-carry among children and examine[s] barriers and facilitators to self-carry.” Researchers asked child-parent pairs and nurses from Chicago schools to answer questions relating to “asthma care and morbidity, confidence in self-carry skills, and facilitators and barriers to self-carry.” They found…
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Historical Redlining Affects Health of Communities Today
A joint study between UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco found that redlining in the past still affects the health of communities today. The authors note “even though a policy gets eliminated or is recognized to be a poor choice, its effect can have impacts even many decades later… We need to use that information…
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Researchers Work to Develop Comprehensive Plan to Integrate Asthma Evidence-Based Interventions
An article in the May 2019 edition of The Journal of Asthma explores developing a comprehensive plan to integrate asthma evidence-based interventions (EBI) across home, school, community and primary care settings. Researchers endeavored to learn the needs of and resources of the community by undertaking focus groups, key informant interviews, secondary data analysis, and pilot…
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Use of Electronic Asthma Tracker on Patient Outcomes
In the June 2019 edition of Pediatrics, an article investigates the “impact of the electronic-AsthmaTracker (e-AT), a self-monitoring application for children with asthma.” In order to do so, researchers utilized a total of 327 children and parents and enrolled them in pediatric clinics with weekly e-AT use for a year. They found that after a…
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Differences in Asthma Worries and Confidence in Children and Parents
Academic Pediatric’s May 2019 edition contains an article examining the differences in responses of a child with asthma and their parents. In total, 105 parent-child pairs were used in the study. The researchers found “children were more likely than their parents to report ever having an exercise-induced asthma attack” and that they “’worry a lot’…
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Researchers Investigate Effects of School Stress on Asthma
A May 2019 study in Clinical and Experimental Allergy looked to see if managing psychological stress at school could serve as an intervention for asthma. To conduct the study, one hundred and four children were separated into three groups, one which received stress management and coping intervention, one which received an asthma education intervention, and…
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Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Chronic Stress on Asthma in Children
The May/June 2019 edition of Nursing Research includes an article examining the impacts of maternal adverse childhood experiences on child physiologic and health outcomes. The study utilized 54 maternal-child dyads and took their family history and current PTSD symptoms. The children were measured for “biomarkers and health and developmental outcomes associated with chronic stress.” The…