Table 2.
Self-reported asthma outcomes and associations with asthma trigger identification.
| Variable | Enrollment | Home monitoring | Discrimination training |
Association with trigger identification at enrollment |
Change | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | F | p | Estimate | SE | p | Estimate | SE | p | |
| Self-reported asthma difficulty | ||||||||||||||
| Severe | 2.59 | 1.21 | 2.33 | 1.20 | 2.28 | 1.24 | 9.69 | <0.001 | 0.11 | 0.02 | <0.001 | 0.07 | 0.02 | <0.001 |
| Managed | 2.71 | 1.07 | 2.37 | 1.11 | 2.20 | 1.04 | 22.99 | <0.001 | 0.04 | 0.02 | 0.037 | 0.05 | 0.02 | 0.006 |
| Troublesome | 2.85 | 1.16 | 2.67 | 1.06 | 2.50 | 1.03 | 12.20 | <0.001 | 0.10 | 0.02 | <0.001 | 0.05 | 0.02 | 0.002 |
| Depend on symptoms | 6.41 | 2.70 | 5.26 | 2.88 | 5.69 | 3.02 | 13.87 | <0.001 | 0.09 | 0.05 | 0.077 | 0.12 | 0.05 | 0.022 |
| Able to predict an attack (n, %) | 109 | 48% | 111 | 50% | 131 | 58% | 4.62 | 0.01 | 0.082 | 0.05 | 0.079 | −0.01 | 0.04 | 0.795 |
| Asthma-related quality of life | ||||||||||||||
| Symptoms | 4.90 | 1.51 | 5.03 | 1.44 | 4.25 | 0.04 | −0.14 | 0.03 | <0.001 | −0.16 | 0.03 | <0.001 | ||
| Activities | 5.81 | 1.37 | 6.04 | 1.27 | 7.57 | 0.006 | −0.15 | 0.03 | <0.001 | −0.14 | 0.02 | <0.001 | ||
| Emotions | 5.29 | 1.53 | 5.57 | 1.49 | 11.58 | 0.001 | −0.12 | 0.03 | 0.001 | −0.08 | 0.03 | 0.004 | ||
| Environment | 4.78 | 1.74 | 5.02 | 1.65 | 8.72 | 0.003 | −0.22 | 0.04 | <0.001 | −0.19 | 0.03 | <0.001 | ||
| Overall | 5.19 | 1.30 | 5.40 | 1.21 | 12.93 | <0.001 | −0.15 | 0.03 | <0.001 | −0.14 | 0.02 | <0.001 | ||
Asthma difficulty was rated from mild (‘‘1”) to severe (‘‘5”), from very well managed (‘‘1”) to not managed at all (‘‘5”), and from hardly noticeable (‘‘1”) to very troublesome (‘‘5”). SD = standard deviation; F = F-test; p = probability; SE = standard error.