Research Outputs

The ACACIA project wants to produce outcomes and resources that can help us to understand and improve asthma in African children.

 

Publications related to ACACIA

• Oyenuga VO, Mosler G, Addo-Yobo E et al. 2024. Asthma symptoms, severity, and control with and without a clinical diagnosis of asthma in early adolescence in sub-Saharan Africa: a multi-country, school-based, cross-sectional study. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, Volume 0, Issue 0.
• Naidoo KL, Dladla S, Mphahlele RE et al. 2023. A cross-country qualitative analysis of teachers' perceptions of asthma care in sub-Saharan Africa. npj Prim. Care Respir. Med. 33, 31 (2023).
• Naidoo KL, Dladla S, Mphahlele RE et al. 2023. Barriers to childhood asthma care in sub-Saharan Africa: a multicountry qualitative study with children and their caregivers. BMJ Open 2023;13:e070784.
• Lim S, Said B, Zurba L et al. 2023. Characterising sources of PM2·5 exposure for school children with asthma: a personal exposure study across six cities in sub-Saharan Africa. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, Volume 8, Issue 1, 17 – 27.
• Oyenuga V, Mosler G, Addo-Yobo E, et al. 2022: The Assessment of Asthma Control in Diagnosed African Adolescents. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2022, 205:A2394.
• Oyenuga V, Mosler G, Addo-Yobo E et al. 2021: Asthma Symptom Severity and Diagnosis in Adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa. European Respiratory Journal 2021 58: OA2565; doi: 10.1183/13993003.congress-2021.OA2565
• Mosler G, Oyenuga V, Addo-Yobo E et al. 2021: Asthma Symptoms, Knowledge, and Perception in Sub-Saharan African Adolescents - Preliminary Results of the Achieving Control of Asthma in Children in Africa (ACACIA) Study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2021;203:A1735; doi: 10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2021.203.1_MeetingAbstracts.A1735
• Mosler G, Oyenuga V, Addo-Yobo E et al. 2020: Achieving Control of Asthma in Children in Africa (ACACIA): protocol of an observational study of children's lung health in six sub-Saharan African countries. BMJ Open,10:e035885. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035885
• Sheikh A, Campbell H, Balharry D et al. 2019: The UK’s Global Health Respiratory Network: Improving respiratory health of the world’s poorest through research collaborations. J. Glob. Health, 9(2), 020104

 

Background Reading

Papers and Reports:

• Adeloye D, Chan KY, Rudan I, Campbell H. An estimate of asthma prevalence in Africa: a systematic analysis. Croat Med J. 2013;54:519-31.

• Asher MI, Rutter CE, Bissell K, Chiang CY, El Sony A, Ellwood E, et al. Worldwide trends in the burden of asthma symptoms in school-aged children: Global Asthma Network Phase I cross-sectional study. Lancet. 2021;398(10311):1569–80.

• Fisher S, Bellinger DC, Cropper ML, et al. Air pollution and development in Africa: 562 impacts on health, the economy, and human capital. Lancet Planet Health 2021;5: e681–8.

• Global Initiative for Asthma. Pocket Guide for Asthma Management and Prevention. 2022. 48p.

• Global Initiative for Asthma. 2022 GINA Report, Global Strategy for Asthma Management and Prevention. 92p.  

• Harris, K, Mosler, G, Grigg, J. Theory-based self-management intervention to improve adolescents’ asthma control: a cluster randomised control trial protocol. BMJ Open. 2019; 9:e025867

• Harris K, Newby C, Mosler G , Steed L, Grifths C, Grigg J. School-based self-management intervention using theatre to improve asthma control in adolescents: a pilot cluster-randomised controlled trial. Pilot and Feasibility Studies. 2022; 8, 67.

• Mortimer K, Nantanda R, Meghji J, Vanker A, Bush A, Ndimande N, et al. Africa ’ s respiratory “ Big Five". JPATS 2021;2(2):64–72.

• Mosler G, Euba T. Taking control through drama. Lancet [Internet]. 2017;6736(17):1-2.

 

Websites:

• GAN (Global Asthma Network)

• Asthma UK

• GINA (Global INitiative for Asthma)

• Impala (International and Multidisciplinary Programme to Address Lung health and TB in Africa)

• My Asthma in School