A hundred asthmatic children under the age of 18 in Greene County, Pennsylvania and Monongalia County, West Virginia completed a two-year National Nursing Centers Consortium's (NNCC) Asthma Safe Kids (ASK) program.

This EPA-funded program is an in-home education program to improve recognition of asthma triggers in the home and to decrease exposures to these triggers.

Resultsdetermined that the curriculum was successful in increasing knowledge of asthma triggers. Above all, emergency room visits showed a six percent change over a 12-month period decreasing in frequency from 17 percent to 11 percent.

7/30/2004