Low-income African-American adolescents use preventive medical services less frequently than their White counterparts, indicating a need for effective interventions targeting this group. Puff City is a Web-based, asthma management program for urban adolescents that has been evaluated in high school settings with promising results. The objective of this pilot was to assess the feasibility of initiating Puff City (treatment) in an emergency department setting, thereby informing the conduct of an individual randomized trial to evaluate its effectiveness compared to a generic, Web-based program (control) in preventing subsequent emergency department (ED) visits.Teens aged 13-19 years presenting with acute asthma to two urban EDs within the study period were eligible. Subsequent ED visits were collected using the electronic medical record. A priori indication of a potential intervention effect was p < 0.20.Of the 121 teens randomized (65 treatment, 56 control), 86.0

作者：Christine L M, Joseph；Prashant, Mahajan；Stephanie, Stokes-Buzzelli；Dayna A, Johnson；Elizabeth, Duffy；Renee, Williams；Talan, Zhang；Dennis R, Ownby；Shannon, Considine；Mei, Lu

来源：Pilot and feasibility studies 2018 年 4卷