NCT03377647

An Asthma Collaboration to Reduce Childhood Asthma Disparities on the Navajo Nation

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 300 (estimated)
• Sponsor: National Jewish Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

National Jewish Health and The University of Arizona worked with Navajo Nation organizations to develop this program to improve the health of children with asthma. The Navajo Community Asthma Program will have two main parts. One will train doctors and health care professionals to improve the diagnosis and treatment of asthma. The second part will work with area schools to provide education to school nurses, teachers, and children to help them better understand asthma. The project also works with families to help them know how to best take care of their child's asthma. A major project aim is to make sure that doctors, teachers, and families work together to manage asthma.

Conditions

• Asthma in Children

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Asthma Care Provider Training	In this intervention, asthma care providers will be trained in current, evidence-based guidelines for care of children with asthma, and will be provided with tools that their practice may use to facilitate care improvements.
BEHAVIORAL	School Staff Asthma Education	In this intervention, teachers and other school staff will be provided current, evidence-based training in understanding asthma and will be provided tools to help schools address the special needs of children with asthma.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-08-01
• Primary completion: 2024-06-30
• Completion: 2025-06-30
• First posted: 2017-12-19
• Last updated: 2025-02-24

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States