Asthma policy in Illinois: A survey of school nursing and staff knowledge and implementation patterns.

Autor: Hardy P; Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.; Department of Pediatrics, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, USA., Gonzalez M; Department of Pediatrics, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, USA., Volerman A; Strategy, Programs & Policy, Respiratory Health Association, Chicago, Illinois, USA., Salem E; Strategy, Programs & Policy, Respiratory Health Association, Chicago, Illinois, USA., Amerson N; Illinois Department of Public Health, Springfield, Illinois, USA., Woolverton N; Illinois Department of Public Health, Springfield, Illinois, USA., Geiger SD; Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA., Pappalardo AA; Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.; Department of Pediatrics, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) [Public Health Nurs] 2024 Jul-Aug; Vol. 41 (4), pp. 704-708. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 May 15.
DOI: 10.1111/phn.13337
Abstrakt: Objective: Our goal is to examine gaps in self-carry, asthma emergency protocol, and stock inhaler policy knowledge in Illinois schools.
Design: A 30-item REDCap cross-sectional survey developed by a team of stakeholders was disseminated. Questions assessed policy knowledge, awareness, and practices regarding asthma emergency protocols, self-carry, and stock inhalers.
Sample: Participants were Illinois school nurses belonging to a governmental organization listserv.
Measurements: Analysis utilized Chi-square tests, descriptive statistics, and t-tests.
Results: Nurses reported 36% of students on average self-carried asthma medication. Thirty percent of nurses were not aware of their emergency asthma policy and only 60% reported having an emergency asthma protocol in their school(s). Fifty-four percent of nurses were aware of stock inhaler programming. Of the 10.3% who reported a stock inhaler program, a lower frequency reported calling 911 for asthma emergencies. Perceived school asthma prevalence varied from 0%-87%.
Conclusions: Our survey demonstrates large variation in knowledge and implementation of school-based asthma health policy. This is likely due to variations in health policy education dissemination. Future efforts should focus on the dissemination and implementation of school-based asthma health policies to improve their more universal adoption and better support school-based asthma management.
(© 2024 The Authors. Public Health Nursing published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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