Comparison of School-Based Supervised Versus Parental Supervised Asthma Therapy

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Conditions studied: Asthma

In brief

1. Develop a simple school-based intervention using school-based supervised asthma therapy to increase adherence to asthma medication. 2. Implement a school-based internet monitoring system within both the school-based supervised asthma therapy and parent supervised asthma therapy groups to record asthma symptoms, peak flow meter readings, school absences, and usage of rescue medications at school. 3. Randomly assign 250 children from inner-city school systems to either school-based supervised asthma therapy or parental supervised asthma therapy. 4. Compare children assigned to school-based supervised asthma therapy with children assigned to parent supervised asthma therapy, in regards to time-averaged proportion having at least one exacerbation per month, rescue medication use, peak flow meter readings, asthma symptoms, school absences, and asthma self-management knowledge.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00110383

Run by

University of Alabama at Birmingham

People needed

295

Starts

2004-05-01

Expected to finish

2007-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-03-04

Who can join

Age: 6 and older, up to 12. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Persistent asthma requiring daily controller medication
• Enrolled at a participating elementary school

Where it is running

• University of Alabama Birmingham Lung Health Center — Birmingham, Alabama, United States

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