Chronic Obstructive Airway Disease: Impact of Health Education
A controlled study evaluating a health education intervention for patients with chronic obstructive airway disease (COAD) was carried out in…
A controlled study evaluating a health education intervention for patients with chronic obstructive airway disease (COAD) was carried out in…
We used a quasi-experimental design; one of a pair of matched communities was selected to receive the education program and…
A total of 1,834 persons were assessed during a 16-month period (821 in Brattleboro and 1,013 in Laconia). A total…
COAD is a progressive and debilitating disease that is often devastating to patients and frustrating for their physicians. The failure…
Our failure to demonstrate any measurable change among participants relative to non-participants could be explained by several alternative hypotheses. First,…