Effect of peer led programme for asthma education in adolescents: cluster randomised controlled
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Effect of peer led programme for asthma education in adolescents: cluster randomised controlled trial.
OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of a peer led programme for asthma education on quality of life and related morbidity in adolescents with asthma. DESIGN Cluster randomised controlled trial. SETTING Six high schools in rural Australia. PARTICIPANTS 272 students with recent wheeze, recruited from a cohort of 1515 students from two school years (mean age 12.5 and 15.5 years); 251 (92.3%) c...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0959-8138
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.322.7286.583