A+ Asthma Rural Partnership Coloring for Health: An Innovative Rural Asthma Teaching Strategy.

Asthma is the leading chronic illness in children, affecting about 4.8 million children in the United States. Recent reports indicate a lack of asthma educational resources for rural school health nurses to use in their practice. This article describes the development of the My Asthma Coloring Book© educational tool for children and their families living in rural communities. My Asthma Coloring Book© was developed to provide asthma information in a short-story format for children with asthma. The coloring book content is described, including its utilization as part of the A+ Asthma Rural Partnership research project funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research (RO1NR05062-01). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]