TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of an Education Programme for SOuth Asians with Asthma and Their Clinicians
T2 - A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial (OEDIPUS)
AU - Griffiths, Chris
AU - Bremner, Stephen
AU - Islam, Kamrul
AU - Sohanpal, Ratna
AU - Vidal, Debi-Lee
AU - Dawson, Carolyn
AU - Foster , Gillian
AU - Ramsay, Jean
AU - Feder, Gene
AU - Taylor, Stephanie
AU - Barnes, Neil
AU - Choudhury, Aklak
AU - Packe, Geoff
AU - Bayliss, Elizabeth
AU - Trathen, Duncan
AU - Moss, Philip
AU - Cook, Viv
AU - Livingstone, Anna Eleri
AU - Eldridge, Sandra
PY - 2016/12/28
Y1 - 2016/12/28
N2 - People with asthma from ethnic minority groups experience significant morbidity. Culturally-specific interventions to reduce asthma morbidity are rare. We tested the hypothesis that a culturally-specific education programme, adapted from promising theory-based interventions developed in the USA, would reduce unscheduled care for South Asians with asthma in the UK.
AB - People with asthma from ethnic minority groups experience significant morbidity. Culturally-specific interventions to reduce asthma morbidity are rare. We tested the hypothesis that a culturally-specific education programme, adapted from promising theory-based interventions developed in the USA, would reduce unscheduled care for South Asians with asthma in the UK.
U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0158783
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0158783
M3 - Article (Academic Journal)
C2 - 28030569
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 11
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
IS - 12
M1 - e0158783
ER -