ARTIS: Asthma Randomized Trial of Indoor-Wood Smoke Data
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ARTIS

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Asthma Randomized Trial of Indoor-Wood Smoke Data

Description

A subset of the data set from a randomized trial of interventions to improve childhood asthma in homes with wood-burning stoves. The original data was collected on 115 children with asthma living in 98 eligible households. The outcomes are domain scores for Pediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (PAQLQ) in symptoms, activity limitation and emotional function.

Usage

ARTIS

Format

A data frame with 50 rows and 6 variables:

homeid: unique id for each household
intervention: indicator for intervention, where 0 = pre-intervention, 1=after-intervention
tx: intervention type, where 1 = sham fiter, 2 = updated wood-burning stove, 3 = air-filter
symptoms_pqol: PAQLQ for symtoms
act_pqol: PAQLQ score for activity
emot_pqol: PAQLQ score for emotional function

Source

Noonan, Curtis W., and Tony J. Ward. "Asthma randomized trial of indoor wood smoke (ARTIS): rationale and methods." Contemporary clinical trials 33, no. 5 (2012): 1080-1087.

References

Noonan, Curtis W., Erin O. Semmens, Paul Smith, Solomon W. Harrar, Luke Montrose, Emily Weiler, Marcy McNamara, and Tony J. Ward. "Randomized trial of interventions to improve childhood asthma in homes with wood-burning stoves." Environmental health perspectives 125, no. 9 (2017): 097010. ([PubMed](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28935614/));