Teaching Children With Asthma and Who Live in a Rural Setting How to Self-Manage Their Asthma

Asthma Clinical Trial

Official title:

A+ Asthma Rural Partnership

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00218803
• Other study ID #: HBV 99-01-11-01
• Secondary ID: 5R01NR005062-04
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• First received: September 20, 2005
• Last updated: September 3, 2008
• Start date: August 2000
• Est. completion date: March 2005

Study information

• Verified date: September 2008
• Source: National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Federal Government
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

To determine if teaching rural children with asthma and their parents about appropriate medication use, asthma triggers unique to a rural setting and increasing access to medical care will result in a decrease in emergency department visits.

Description:

Many self-management asthma interventions have demonstrated increase in asthma knowledge, reduced emergency department visits, increased self-efficacy and quality of life. The type of self-management interventions, specifically individualized and interactive educational interventions, have been suggested to have the strongest effect on asthma morbidity. Few studies have tested asthma self-management educational interventions in increasing knowledge, self-efficacy and quality of life in rural pediatric populations. The goal of this study was to test the effectiveness of an asthma educational intervention in improving asthma knowledge in rural children and their parent/caregivers. We hypothesized that an interactive asthma educational intervention would increase parent/caregiver and child asthma knowledge resulting in decreased emergency room visits in rural families of children with asthma.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 220
• Est. completion date: March 2005
• Est. primary completion date: March 2005
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 5 Years to 12 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Physician diagnosed asthma, attend elementary school in rural county agreeing to participate

Exclusion Criteria: Participation in another asthma study or having other respiratory illness such as cystic fibrosis, BPD

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Asthma

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Nurse asthma education intervention
Asthma Education
• Control Group
Asthma Education

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore	Maryland

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (1)

Naumann PL, Huss K, Calabrese B, Smith T, Quartey R, Van de Castle B, Lewis C, Hill K, Walker J, Winkelstein M. A+ Asthma Rural Partnership coloring for health: an innovative rural asthma teaching strategy. Pediatr Nurs. 2004 Nov-Dec;30(6):490-4. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Decrease in emergency department visits		10 months or 1 school year	No
Secondary	Asthma Education		10 months or 1 school year	No