NCT01167855

Reducing Asthma Disparities Through School-Based Telemedicine for Rural Children

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 823 (actual)
• Sponsor: Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 14 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The overall goal of this proposal is to examine the efficacy of a school-based asthma telemedicine intervention in a predominately minority, low-income rural pediatric population.

Detailed description

A total of 1110 subjects will be enrolled in this research study. Five hundred forty (540) subjects will be between the ages of 7-14 years. The remaining 540 subjects will be comprised of the primary caregiver of the participants. Thirty (30) school nurse/s providing care to the 270 intervention participants will also be enrolled in the study. To test our hypotheses, the investigators will conduct a cluster randomized trial with 540 children, ages 7-14 years and their parent/guardian(s), to address the following specific aims: Specific Aim 1: Examine the efficacy of a school-based asthma telemedicine intervention in improving asthma-related health outcomes in an intervention group compared to children receiving usual care. Specific Aim 2: Determine the effects of a school-based asthma telemedicine intervention on asthma self-management skills of intervention caregivers and participants compared to a usual care group. The investigators will compare changes in asthma self-efficacy, quality of life, and knowledge between groups. Specific Aim 3: Determine the cost of the intervention in relation to health outcomes.

Conditions

• Asthma
• Quality of Life
• Children

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Asthma Education Sessions	Comprehensive asthma education sessions delivered via telemedicine.
OTHER	Asthma Health Assessment via Telemonitoring	Each intervention participant will undergo assessment of asthma via school-based telemonitoring to measure lung function and provide a self-report of asthma symptoms.
OTHER	Provider Treatment Prompt	A treatment prompt will be mailed to the primary care provider at baseline and 3 months.
OTHER	School Absenteeism	Absenteeism before and after the intervention will be compared in the intervention group and also will be compared to absentee rates of the usual care group.
OTHER	Prescription Filling Profile	Study personnel will monitor participants' prescription profiles.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-05-25
• Primary completion: 2017-02-01
• Completion: 2017-02-01
• First posted: 2010-07-22
• Last updated: 2017-05-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States