A Community Health Worker Home Intervention to Improve Pediatric Asthma Outcomes

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Conditions studied: Asthma

In brief

The investigators propose to test the hypothesis that a home-based asthma intervention, the Wee Wheezers program, delivered by the Community Health Workers and tailored to the needs of the investigators community, will improve anti-inflammatory medication adherence, parental asthma knowledge and management behaviors, which in turn will reduce asthma morbidity (defined as days with asthma symptoms) and health care utilization (defined as asthma-related Emergency Department visits) among low-income, minority children with persistent asthma in the Bronx.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01003340

Run by

Montefiore Medical Center

People needed

188

Starts

2009-07-01

Expected to finish

2013-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-02-15

Who can join

Age: 2 and older, up to 9. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• children 2-9 years of age with persistent asthma
• children being currently prescribed ICS in the Metered Dose Inhaler (MDI) form
• if the child is 2 years of age at the time of the recruitment, he/she must have at least two prior episodes of wheezing treated and reversible with beta-agonists
• primary caregiver speaks English or Spanish
• family has a phone.

You may not qualify if…

• children with other chronic pulmonary diseases (e.g, cystic fibrosis, bronchopulmonary dysplasia) or presence of tracheostomy

Where it is running

• Montefiore Medical Group- CHCC — The Bronx, New York, United States

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