Therapeutic strategies, health status and quality of life among persons with asthma: A meta-analysis
Abstract
Asthma is a major health problem that affects approximately 17 million people in the United States. Unique circumstances associated with a patient's health status have made evaluations of the management of asthma difficult. The purposes of the study were to assemble information on therapeutic strategies, health status factors and Quality of Life among persons with asthma and make empirical generalizations about the selected variables from a universe of studies. This meta-analytical investigation consisted of fifteen subject studies that used experimental strategies and the Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire on asthmatic subjects. Four research questions asked: (a) What are the substantive characteristics of health status in the sample of studies? (b) What are the substantive and methodological characteristics of therapeutic strategies in the sample of studies? (c) What are the contributions of health status and therapeutic strategies to the magnitude of quality of life among persons with asthma in the sample of studies? and, (d) What is the influence of health status and therapeutic strategies on QOL among persons with asthma?
Sigma Membership
Beta Beta (Dallas)
Type
Dissertation
Format Type
Text-based Document
Study Design/Type
Meta-Analysis/Synthesis
Research Approach
Advanced Analytics
Keywords:
Managing Asthma, Therapies for Asthma, Variables of Self-care
Advisor
Margaret Beard
Degree
PhD
Degree Grantor
Texas Woman's University
Degree Year
2001
Recommended Citation
Bailey, Catherine B., "Therapeutic strategies, health status and quality of life among persons with asthma: A meta-analysis" (2019). Dissertations. 58.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/dissertations/58
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Review Type
None: Degree-based Submission
Acquisition
Proxy-submission
Date of Issue
2019-12-05
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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 3012855; ProQuest document ID: 238129507. The author still retains copyright.