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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Asthma. 2020 Feb 6;58(5):596–603. doi: 10.1080/02770903.2020.1723621

Table 2.

Process Measures and Parental Rating of Care by Treatment Group.

Measures CC + AIP (n=34) a CC (n=29) b Adjusted Difference (95% CI)c P Valuec
Process Measures
 Phone calls (per 100 child-years) between health care staff and families, No. 753 356 2.11 (1.29–3.45) 0.003
 Families who received motivational interviewing at least once, No. (%) 34 (100%) N/A N/A N/A
 Patients who received 6 or more consecutive monthly communication with the pharmacy, No. (%) 26 (76%) N/A N/A N/A
 Patients who failed at least once to pick-up their medication for 2 consecutive months, No. (%) 27 (79%) N/A N/A N/A
 Children ≥6 years of age who were able to perform the portable pulmonary function test, No. (%) 19 (76%)d N/A N/A N/A
 Children ≥6 years for whom the school nurses confirmed that he/she would administer controller medications on weekdays, No. (%) 20 (80%)d N/A N/A N/A
Parental Satisfaction e
 Clinician always explained things in a way that was easy to understand, No. (%) 30/31 (97%) 25/25 (100%) 0.20 (−0.38–0.44) 0.106
 Clinician always listened carefully, No. (%) 31/31 (100%) 25/25 (100%) N/A N/A
 Clinician always gave easy to understand information about health questions or concerns, No. (%) 27/27 (100%) 18/18 (100%) N/A N/A
 Clinician always showed respect, No. (%) 31/31 (100%) 25/25 (100%) N/A N/A
 Clinician rating of 9 or 10f 30/31 (97%) 25/25 (100%) −0.32 (−0.09–0.2) 0.365
a

There were 62 child-years.

b

There were 51 child-years.

c

Adjusted for age (2–5 years; 6–18 years), days of respiratory-related medical care provided outside the home in the prior year before the study (≤5 days; >5 days), and length of follow up.

d

There were 25 children aged 6 years or older in the CC+AIP group

e

The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Child 12-Month Survey was administered to parent of each participant 12 months after study enrollment (6–12 months after enrollment for patients enrolled during the last study year). There were a total of 34 possible survey respondents in the intervention group and 29 in the usual care group. The P values were obtained from the 2-sample z test for proportions.

f

On a scale of 0–10 with 10 representing the highest score possible.