Effect of Community-Based Interventions for Childhood Asthma: A Meta-Analysis

Background: This study aimed to appraise and compare the influence of community‑based interventions (C-BIs) on childhood asthma. Methods: We reviewed meta-analysis data and used a dichotomous or continuous model with random or fixed effects to get odds ratios (OR) and mean differences (MD) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). This review included 13 papers and 8824 children with asthma. The range of studies years were between 2006 and 2024 from Google Scholar, Embase, Cochrane library, Pubmed, and OVID databases. Results: Children with C-BI had significantly lower asthma-connected emergency department visits (OR, 0.29; 95% CI, 0.22-0.39, P