NCT03032744

Aligning With Schools To Help Manage Asthma (Project ASTHMA)

Aligning With Schools To Help Manage Asthma

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 29 (actual)
• Sponsor: State University of New York at Buffalo · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 4 Years – 14 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Project ASTHMA is a school-based health center intervention program that institutes guideline-based chronic asthma care and provides supervised administration with daily preventive asthma medications to improve asthma symptoms and lung function, reduce emergency visits, and decrease missed days of school among children from communities with health disparities.

Detailed description

Project ASTHMA in schools is a 7 month randomized control intervention pilot trial. Forty students, ages 4 to 14 years, with persistent asthma, or who utilize acute care facilities frequently for their asthma, will be recruited from 3 urban SBHCs in the fall of 2018. All students will receive NHLBI guideline-based asthma assessments to determine eligibility and proper dosing of preventive medication. The asthma assessment will include spirometry testing. All enrolled students and parents will receive asthma education at the time of enrollment. Eligible students will be randomized to an intervention or usual care group using permuted block randomization stratified by SBHCs. In collaboration with the student's PCP, the SBHCs' mid-level providers will prescribe the preventive medication to the students in the intervention group. These students will receive the morning dose of their preventive medication from the school nurse each school day for the remainder of the school year. Students and their parents will be responsible to administer the evening and non-school day doses. Students randomized to the usual care group will be referred back to their PCP for further asthma management. All participants will be re-evaluated at 1, 3 and 7 months after enrollment, and medication dose adjustments will be made in the intervention group as needed.

Conditions

• Asthma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Asthma Assessment & Management	Asthma Assessment \& Management based on NAEPP-EPR3 guidelines
OTHER	Asthma Education	Asthma education on medications
OTHER	Controller medication at school	Students will receive the morning dose of their daily preventive asthma medication at school on school days.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-01-17
• Primary completion: 2019-07-01
• Completion: 2020-06-01
• First posted: 2017-01-26
• Last updated: 2026-02-09
• Results posted: 2026-02-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States