Exploring Patient Engagement: A Qualitative Analysis of Low-Income Urban Participants in Asthma Research

• Published in: The journal of allergy and clinical immunology in practice (Cambridge, MA) Vol. 5; no. 6; p. 1625
• Main Authors: Korwin, Amy, Black, Heather, Perez, Luzmercy, Morales, Knashawn H, Klusaritz, Heather, Han, Xiaoyan, Huang, Jingru, Rogers, Marisa, Ndicu, Grace, Apter, Andrea J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.11.2017
• Subjects: Adult; Asthma - epidemiology; Asthma - prevention & control; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Health Services Accessibility; Humans; Male; Patient Advocacy; Patient Education as Topic; Patient Participation; Patient-Centered Care; Physician-Patient Relations; Poverty; Surveys and Questionnaires; Urban Population; Adherence; Patient engagement; Patient advocate; Access to health care; Asthma; Health disparities

Uncontrolled asthma is a common highly morbid condition with worse outcomes in low-income and minority patients in part due to barriers accessing and engaging with health care. We developed a patient advocate to educate about and assist with navigating access to care and provider-patient communicati...