| A School-Based Asthma Education Program to Reduce Absenteeism by Jamie Lloyd According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one in thirteen people have a diagnosis of asthma (2017). Childhood asthma is one of the leading chronic diseases affecting children below the age of eighteen years (CDC, 2017). Despite having medical advances and medications in the field of asthma, the disease remains the significant cause of school absenteeism. This study describes the planning, implementation, and results of a clinical scholarly project, which implemented a school-based asthma education program among middle school students' with a purpose to increase asthma control and reduce school absenteeism. The research design of this project was a pre- and post-intervention study and examined the effectiveness of the school-based program on the knowledge of managing asthma among the student adolescents. Attendance rates were also reviewed pre- and post-intervention. The data collection method, target population, sample size, instrumentation, variables, and the findings will be discussed. The paper also details the limitations of the project, the significance and implications, application to Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Essentials (American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN], 2006), sustainability and dissemination of the study findings. |
