ARTIS {npclust}

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/));

Examples

data(ARTIS)
head(ARTIS)