Home Visits to Optimize Medical and Educational Success Among Sacramento Schoolchildren With Asthma

Asthma Clinical Trial

Official title:

Project HOMES: Home Visits to Optimize Medical and Educational Success

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03335046
• Other study ID #: 1114637
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 29, 2017
• Est. completion date: July 30, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: November 2020
• Source: University of California, Davis
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study will establish a multi-disciplinary home visitation team consisting of a medical provider and school teacher or staff member, and will evaluate whether a series of visits from this team will help decrease school absenteeism among children with asthma.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 11
• Est. completion date: July 30, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: July 1, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 5 Years to 12 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Students in elementary school (K-6) in the Sacramento City Unified School District

• Identified as at risk for chronic absenteeism based on previous year and/or first 8 weeks of school year

• Have a current diagnosis of asthma

Exclusion Criteria:

• Underlying chronic conditions such as cystic fibrosis, chronic lung disease with oxygen dependence, immunodeficiency syndromes

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Asthma
• Chronic School Absenteeism

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Home Visit
The intervention will consist of a series of home visitations to chronically absent students with co-morbid asthma. These visits will consist of a home environment evaluation, medication adherence and knowledge assessment, distribution of home environmental allergen reduction items such as mattress and pillow encasements, as well as review and reinforcement of any asthma action plans or care plans provided by patient's primary care physicians or medical home.
• Standard Care
Standard care will refer to the procedures carried out by the school district to address students with chronic absenteeism. This includes parent-teacher and parent-school administrator meetings and communications and may also include home visits carried out by classroom teachers or student support center staff.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of California Davis	Sacramento	California

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of California, Davis

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Missed School Days	The number of school days missed over the course of an academic year	One academic year
Secondary	Healthcare Utilization	Number of emergency department or urgent care visits for asthma	One academic year
Secondary	Asthma Symptom Report	Patient and family self-report of number of days where asthma symptoms were experienced, collected monthly	One academic year
Secondary	Asthma Control Test	Numeric score from the Childhood Asthma Control Test, collected monthly	One academic year