NCT01895478

Adaptation of the Pediatric Asthma Control & Communication Instrument (PACCI) in a Pediatric Emergency Department

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 77 (actual)
• Sponsor: Rhode Island Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Year – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study examined whether the Pediatric Asthma Control and Communication Instrument for the Emergency Department (PACCI-ED), a 12-item questionnaire, can help doctors in the emergency department accurately assess a child's asthma control. This study involved an intervention with the doctors in the emergency department of an urban pediatric hospital. The intervention was done when one of the doctors involved in the study treated a child aged 1-17 years for an asthma exacerbation. Parents answered questions on the PACCI-ED about their children's asthma. Half of the doctors were allowed to see the PACCI-ED results and half were not. The two groups of doctors were compared on their ability to correctly identify asthma control categories, whether a child's asthma was worsening or improving, whether the family was administering controller medications as often as they should, and how much burden the child's asthma was for the family.

Conditions

• Asthma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	PACCI-ED use	Attending physicians were allowed to view the patient's PACCI-ED prior to completing the assessment form. Attendings were told at the time of the child's ED visit that the PACCI-ED is used to assess a child's asthma control and medication adherence, and that they could use it to complete the outcomes assessment form.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-04-01
• Primary completion: 2012-05-01
• Completion: 2012-05-01
• First posted: 2013-07-10
• Last updated: 2013-07-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States