NCT00964301

Telemedicine Education for Rural Children With Asthma

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 106 (actual)
• Sponsor: Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The investigators will implement an interactive school-based telemedicine education program for rural low-income, minority children with asthma, their caregivers, and school nurses in the Delta region of Arkansas. Specific aims: 1. The investigators will examine changes in asthma symptoms control and other health outcomes such as activity levels and family/child emotional health in the intervention group compared to a usual care group. 2. The investigators will examine changes in asthma knowledge, self-efficacy, and quality of life in the intervention participants and their caregivers compared to a usual care group.

Detailed description

The investigators will conduct a prospective study to examine the impact of an interactive, telemedicine asthma intervention among children living in the rural Delta region of Arkansas.

Conditions

• Asthma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Telemedicine Education	Student Asthma Education. Each student will engage in 6 age-appropriate sessions on various aspects of asthma health. Caregiver Asthma Education. The primary caregiver will engage in 2 asthma education sessions. School Nurse Asthma Education. School nurses will participate in 2 sessions. Primary Care Provider (PCP) Communication. The PCP of the intervention group participant will be notified of his/her patient's baseline asthma assessment. They will receive updates summarizing each telemedicine intervention.
OTHER	Usual care	Participants will receive asthma care by their PCP with no education sessions or PCP communications by the research staff.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-08-01
• Primary completion: 2012-07-01
• Completion: 2015-03-01
• First posted: 2009-08-24
• Last updated: 2017-09-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States