Promoting Asthma Wellness in Rural Communities
- Conditions
- Asthma
- Registration Number
- NCT01170676
- Lead Sponsor
- Augusta University
- Brief Summary
This is a research study that compares the effectiveness of a web-based program (known as Puff City) and another web-based program (of internet sites such as the American Lung Association, American Academy of Asthma, Allergy, and Immunology, etc) that targets five key asthma management issues among rural youth:
1. Improving adherence to asthma controller medication use;
2. Improving compliance of carrying a rescue inhaler at all times for use at the first sign of asthma symptoms;
3. Improving inhaler technique;
4. Smoking reduction or cessation in those who are smokers; and
5. Avoidance of second-hand smoke exposure.
- Detailed Description
A randomized control trial across three southeastern rural high schools comparing a web-based tailored intervention (known as Puff City) to web-based traditional control education sites.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 700
- AA ethnicity
- in 9th - 11th grade of selected rural schools
- have an asthma diagnosis and/or asthma-like symptoms by screening eligible on the Lung Health Survey
- have access to a telephone or mobile phone
- being the parent of a student meeting the above criteria with whom the student resides the majority of the time.
- Not meeting the above criteria.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Days of asthma symptoms; personal cigarette smoking and cessation; and days of school missed because of asthma, measured by self report baseline, end of treatment, 6 months, 12 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in exhaled nitric oxide and active and passive smoke exposure, measured by salivary cotinine. baseline, end of treatment, 6 months, 12 months
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Georgia Health Sciences University
🇺🇸Augusta, Georgia, United States
Georgia Health Sciences University🇺🇸Augusta, Georgia, United States