Table 1.
School District School |
Number of Students Identified as Having Asthma |
Number of Students Who Returned Consent Forms |
Number of Students Who Completed the Questionnaire |
Response Rate, Expressed as a Percentage |
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Intervention school district | 350 | 323 | 299 | 85.43% |
Elementary schools | 172 | 162a | 144 | 83.72% |
Middle school | 82 | 77 | 74 | 90.24% |
High school | 96 | 84 | 81 | 84.38% |
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Comparison school district | 235 | 159 | 157 | 66.81% |
Elementary schools | 78 | 67 | 67 | 85.90% |
Middle school | 63 | 38 | 38 | 60.32% |
High school | 94 | 54 | 52 | 55.32% |
After returning consent forms, the evaluation team discovered that 16 of the elementary students (kindergarten students) were not six years old by the time of questionnaire administration. Therefore, these students were not eligible to participate in the cross-sectional questionnaire.