A+ Asthma Rural Partnership
Overview
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Asthma
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
- Enrollment
- 220
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Decrease in emergency department visits
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 17 years ago
Overview
Brief 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.
Detailed 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.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
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
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Decrease in emergency department visits
Time Frame: 10 months or 1 school year
Secondary Outcomes
- Asthma Education(10 months or 1 school year)