CAMP Air: Efficacy and Cost-effectiveness in Urban Adolescents

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• Teenagers with a co-morbid disease or condition that might affect lung function, such as cystic fibrosis or sickle cell anemia; and
• Teenagers with highly specialized learning needs (e.g., Down's syndrome, mental retardation, severe ADHD) which may preclude completion of the intervention or assessments.

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• Pregnant teenagers due to the stress of adolescent pregnancy and hormonal changes of pregnancy that could change asthma control;
• Students enrolled in 12th grade because those randomized to the control group will not be in the school the following school year to receive CAMP Air;

• A prior diagnosis of asthma;
• Asthma medication use in the last 12 months; and
• Symptoms consistent with uncontrolled asthma, defined as: in the last month (a) daytime symptoms 3+ days a week, (b) night awakenings 3+ nights per month, or (c) activity limitations 3+ days per week; OR in the last 12 months (d) 2+ unscheduled visits to a clinic or medical provider because having asthma symptoms, (e) 2+ ED visits; (f) 1+ hospitalization for asthma, or (g) taken oral or systemic steroids in the past year.