“…Use of an asthma action plan, a set of instructions for daily management tailored to the individual patient, is recommended for all patients by several guidelines, including GINA (Global Initiative for Asthma, 2015) and NHLBI/NAEPP (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute & National Asthma Education and Prevention Program, 2007). A personal asthma action plan can help to empower patients and to improve adherence (Rance, 2011), enabling them to alter their treatment in response to change and to the level of asthma control. Written (Kaferle & Wimsatt, 2012), electronic (Zipkin, Schrager, Keefer, Marshall, & Wu, 2013), and phone-based (Raju, Soni, Aziz, Tiemstra, & Hasnain, 2012) action plans are all effective.…”