Asthma Resources for School Health

Iggy and The Inhalers is an asthma education project created by board-certified pediatric allergist Alex Thomas MD and published by Booster Shot Media.

School-based Research Study

Journal of School Nursing - Asthma Study

The Journal of School Nursing published "Evaluation of a School-Based Asthma Education Protocol: Iggy and The Inhalers" (Mickel et al., 2016) on a study of 173 elementary school students at 7 different schools in an urban Midwest school district. (See chart below). You can read more about other research on our Iggy materials at asthma camps and in clinic settings.

asthma study research results

Asthma knowledge increased significantly (p < .001) between pretest and posttest, and this increase was retained at 1-month follow-up.

- Mickel et al.

School-based Asthma Management Program (SAMPRO™)

Iggy and The Inhalers is included in the School-Based Asthma Management Program (SAMPRO™) list of research-tested Educational Resources for Students with Asthma. The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology recently announced this new program in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and you can download their full SAMPRO™ toolkit on the AAAAI website.

Free Resources for School Health

The Iggy and The Inhalers website has many free resources for school health. The comic book can be viewed online below. Enter your email below for links to download all 6 handouts in both English and Spanish. We ask that you sign up for our mailing list, because we'd like to update you when we make changes to these materials or offer new free downloads.

Direct link for English. Link for Spanish version