This is a repost - I'd like to add to the message below that
if you find the site interesting, please share it with others,
post it on web-pages, etc. We hope to gather a large number
of reponses in order to better understand how those with asthma feel
about treatment.
Thank you.
For those who suffer from asthma-
We are performing a study, based out of the Purdue University School of
Pharmacy, looking at what people with asthma might feel improvements in
their health are worth, in terms of time or money. This research has been
approved by Purdue University's Committee for Research on Human Subjects.
In order to accomplish this we have created a website that we believe
people with asthma or breathing issues might find of interest. If you
visit
our site you will have an opportunity to answer questions about how much
you would value hypothetical asthma treatment interventions. While doing
so, you will also complete a well-validated quality of life in asthma
questionnaire, which will be scored automatically. You will be able to
compare your score to several other population samples, which will give
you
an idea of how you are doing, in terms of your asthma-related quality of
life. The whole process should take 10-15 minutes, depending on the
speed
of your connection and how you answer questions. We believe this will be
of
great interest to anyone with asthma. I invite you to visit our website
to
see for yourself all that we are trying to accomplish with our project.
(http://surveys.pnhs.purdue.edu/index.php?sid=10&token=)
If you have any questions or concerns please contact me at
murawski@p.p.edu
(Replace the p.p in the above address with pharmacy.purdue to reach me)
Respectfully-

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Associate Professor of Pharmacy Administration
Department of Pharmacy Practice
Purdue University
R.Heine Pharmacy Building Room 502
575 Stadium Mall Drive
West Lafayette, IN
47907-2051
mcs - 26 May 2006 17:09 GMT
You want a study, do all your researching on the correleation between
particulates and asthma , longevity. I suggest the associations will be
found that people living in vulnerable high particulate areas have more
health problems although , not necessarily asthma.If you compare the recent
research reports ( last year or two) and add up the associations I have
suggested the exact implications can be drawn . Researchers would find
probably that the correlation of the effects of this pollution probably more
then anything else,affect negatively on the overall quality of health on
people . Now just compound those affects for people with asthma. I think its
quite weird that while we look into alternatives, we get these weird
associations on how to stop asthma like putting things down peoples lungs.
How about reporting the quality of life , the incomp variations, the health
comparisons, the longevity facts of people living in clean environment
compared to those that don;t. Yes even compare the sucide / asthma/ and
crime stats and don't be surprised to find that there is a big difference
based on pollution levels. Dont be surprises that pollution is one of the
largest issues affecting quality of life on earth at present time period..
> This is a repost - I'd like to add to the message below that
> if you find the site interesting, please share it with others,
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>
> Respectfully-