The Healthy Homes I Asthma Project was a demonstration project to reduce exposure to indoor asthma triggers among 300 low-income households of children with asthma. Outreach workers made an initial assessment visit, followed by nine visits over the next year. Outreach workers offered a comprehensive package of education and social support, encouragement of behavior changes, provision of materials to reduce exposures (bedding covers, vacuums, door mats, cleaning kits), and help in locating assistance for making structural improvements to reduce moisture. Community volunteers from the Master Home Environmentalist Program worked with households for an additional year. The Principal Investigator for this project was James Krieger, MD, MPH, Chief, Public Health Epidemiology, Planning and Evaluation Unit.

Protocols, checklists and questionnaires (in Adobe PDF format):

• Protocol Manual Contents:
  • Protocol checklist-asthma basics
  • Protocol checklist-cleaning
  • Protocol checklist-dust control
  • Protocol checklist-dust mites
  • Protocol checklist-environmental tobacco smoke
  • Protocol checklist-household products
  • Protocol checklist-moisture
  • Protocol checklist-pets
  • Protocol checklist-roaches
  • Protocol checklist-rodents
    
    
• Baseline Interview:
  • English
  • Spanish
  • Vietnamese
    
    
• BiMonthly Questionnaire
  
  
• Home Environmental Checklist (HEC)
  
  
• Click here for Healthy Homes II Asthma Project