Champ Camp: The Colorado Children's Asthma Camp Experience

Silvers, William S.; Holbreich, Mark; Go, Soken; M, Morrison; Dennis, Wayne; Marostica, T.; Buckley, Jerome M.

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“…Swensen, 1988); and (5) helping children learn about illness, either through formal education or informal peer interaction (e.g. Bluebond-Langner, Perkel, & Goertzel, 1991;Silvers, Holbriech, Go, Morrison, Dennis, Marostica, & Buckley, 1992). With regard to the methods employed to realize goals, camping programmes provide children with a supportive environment, where they can mix with others who have similar experiences of illness and take part in a range of recreational activities.…”

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Children’s Perspectives of Therapeutic Recreation: Data from the ‘Barretstown Studies’

Kiernan

MacLachlan

2002

J Health Psychol

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Camps offering therapeutic recreation-based programmes seek to provide a positive experience for children with life-threatening illnesses, and their siblings. While such programmes are undoubtedly motivated by the best of intentions, there are very little data available on children's own experiences in them. This article addresses this by investigating children's experiences in The Barretstown Gang Camp in Ireland. A questionnaire was completed by 449 children from 15 European countries. Feedback was factor analysed to construct an empirical model of how liking for activities in the programme clustered. Eight distinct components were identified.. Results indicated that children's level of liking for some components and whether they felt their friends would like to come to camp were influenced by their age, gender, nationality, level of understanding of explanations in camp and patient/sibling status. Children's descriptions of their camp experience emphasized themes pertaining to fun, activities, scenic surroundings, staff and multiculturalism.

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Section: Camping Programmes and The Therapeutic Recreation Processmentioning

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Children’s Perspectives of Therapeutic Recreation: Data from the ‘Barretstown Studies’

Kiernan

MacLachlan

2002

J Health Psychol

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“…One form of education that has been shown to be effective in children with asthma is attendance at an asthma summer camp. Previous studies have documented improved knowledge about asthma, reduced anxiety, improved wellbeing, increased use of peak flow monitoring, decreased outpatient urgent visits and decreased time missed from school as a result of attendance at an asthma summer camp (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7). While many of these changes likely result from the effects of enhanced education and self-awareness, we asked to what extent attendance at an asthma summer camp could actually modify the disease process.…”

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Exhaled Nitric Oxide Decreases in Association with Attendance at an Asthma Summer Camp

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Attendance at a summer asthma camp has been associated with improved outcomes in children with asthma. We hypothesized that one mechanism involved in improved asthma outcomes is reduction in airway inflammation. To investigate this, we measured the fractional concentration of exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO), lung function (forced expiratory volume in 1 sec, FEV(1)) and asthma control (Juniper Asthma Control Questionnaire, ACQ) from children at the beginning and end of a 1-week asthma summer camp. We also obtained a symptoms-only ACQ at 1 and 6 months after the end of camp. We enrolled 10 girls, 17 boys, mean (+/- SD) age = 9.6 +/- 1.3 years. At baseline, FeNO (ppb), median (25-75 IQR) = 11.4 (7.2-21.3); ACQ = 0.86 (0.43-1.21); FEV(1) (%pred, mean +/- SD) = 87 +/- 10. At the end of camp, FeNO = 6.2 (4.4-8.4), a change of -45%, p < 0.0001; ACQ = 0.71 (0.43-1.14), a fall of 14%, p = 0.72; and mean FEV(1)% predicted remained unchanged. There were no significant changes in the follow-up symptoms-only ACQ at 1 and 6 months. We conclude that airway inflammation, as measured by FeNO, improved during 1 week of asthma camp, but there were no significant changes in lung function or asthma control. Since no child had a change in anti-inflammatory therapy during camp, these findings suggest that airway inflammation was reduced because of improved adherence to therapy and/or reduced exposure to pro-inflammatory stimuli in the home environment. The finding of reduced inflammation following attendance at an asthma summer camp should motivate the child, the parents and the clinician to focus their efforts on improving adherence to therapy and reducing exposures at home.

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“…HRQOL is a global measure of the patient's perceptions, illness experience, and functional status that incorporates social, cultural, psychological, and disease‐related factors 20. HRQOL is an attempt to quantify the patient's subjective evaluation of these aspects of the experience.…”

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Health-related Quality of Life Improves in Children and Adolescents with Inflammatory Bowel Disease After Attending a Camp Sponsored by the Crohnʼs and Colitis Foundation of America

Shepanski

Hurd

Culton

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Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

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Overall, HRQOL improved in children after attending IBD summer camp. This exploratory study suggests that contributing factors for these improvements may be an increase in social functioning, a better acceptance of IBD symptoms, and less distress regarding treatment interventions, suggesting that a camp that is specifically designed for children with IBD may normalize the chronic illness experience. However, future research using a multimodal measurement approach is warranted to support these conclusions.

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Champ Camp: The Colorado Children's Asthma Camp Experience

Cited by 23 publications

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Children’s Perspectives of Therapeutic Recreation: Data from the ‘Barretstown Studies’

Children’s Perspectives of Therapeutic Recreation: Data from the ‘Barretstown Studies’

Exhaled Nitric Oxide Decreases in Association with Attendance at an Asthma Summer Camp

Health-related Quality of Life Improves in Children and Adolescents with Inflammatory Bowel Disease After Attending a Camp Sponsored by the Crohnʼs and Colitis Foundation of America

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