Healthy Lungs Study: protocol adherence
| Protocol assessments | Intervention (n=203) |
| Clinic follow-up, n (%) | |
| Clinic one attended | 195 (96∙1) |
| ≥4 more clinics attended* | 165 (81∙3) |
| Respiratory, n (%) | |
| Wet cough in clinic | 290 (79∙3) oral antibiotics prescribed in 161 children |
| Wheeze | 86 (42∙4) trials inhaled salbutamol via spacer |
| 30 (14∙8) trial inhaled fluticasone via spacer | |
| Follow-up CXR | 136 (67) requested as per protocol |
| 102/136 (75) undertaken by family | |
| Smoking, n (%) | |
| Number of assessments | 203 (100) |
| Number with parents who smoke | 90 (44∙3) |
| Consent to referral for smoke cessation | 88/90 (97∙8) |
| Housing | |
| Total assessments done in number of families | 414 in 192 families |
| Qualified for retrofitting insulation in those assessed | 221/414 (54%) |
| Consented to referral | 41/221 (18∙6%) |
| Immunisations, n (%) | |
| Number with any immunisation | 163 (80∙3) |
| Number delayed at 5 months† and caught up in clinic visits | 61 (30) |
| Referrals, n (%) | |
| To paediatric clinic | 90 (27∙6) visits in 56 children |
| To respiratory clinic | 22 (10∙8) children |
*Eight community clinics were scheduled 3 monthly per child in intervention programme; this would represent 50% adherence to clinic visits.
†The New Zealand Immunisation programme over this timeframe recommends diphtheria/pertussis/tetanus vaccination at 6 weeks, 3 months and 5 months of age. ‘Delay’ is determined here as at least 1 month later than recommended age.