Allergens in Inner-City Schools and Childhood Asthma

Completed

Conditions studied: Asthma

In brief

Asthma is a disease that affects more than 12% of Americans under the age of 18 for over 14 million missed school days per year, and is the number one cause of school absences in America. Elementary school children spend 6 to 10 hours a day in school, and most of that time is spent in one classroom. The goals of this project are to provide an understanding of exposure risk factors specific to the classroom. This is critical, because the classroom environment could potentially be considered as an effective target for prevention of inner-city asthma morbidity by reducing exposures to many symptomatic children through an intervention in the school classrooms.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01756391

Run by

Boston Children's Hospital

People needed

351

Starts

2008-03-01

Expected to finish

2014-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-12-08

Who can join

Age: 4 and older, up to 15. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Grades K-8 the school year following spring recruitment (Ages 4-15)
• Attend one of the schools in the fall where permission obtained for classroom sampling.
• Able to provide assent and parent/guardian able to provide informed consent Physician-Diagnosed asthma AND Wheezing in the previous 12 months

You may not qualify if…

• Significant pulmonary diseases other than asthma that might influence test results or pose risks (e.g., cystic fibrosis, sarcoidosis, bronchiectasis)
• Cardiovascular disease that requires daily medication
• Taking a beta blocker
• Active smoker
• Unable to follow through with study visit or complete study procedures

Where it is running

• Children's Hospital, Boston — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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