Promoting Asthma Wellness in Rural Communities

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Asthma
• Interventions: Behavioral: Puff City GA; Behavioral: General Asthma Education

• 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.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2009-08
• Study First Submitted: 2010-05-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2010-07-26
• Study First Posted: 2010-07-27
• Primary Completion: 2012-05
• Study Completion: 2014-05
• Status Verified: 2015-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-01-29
• Last Update Posted: 2015-02-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 700

Inclusion Criteria

• 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.

Exclusion Criteria

• Not meeting the above criteria.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Puff City GA	Puff City GA	Puff City is an NHLBI-funded (C. Joseph, PI; Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI), web-based intervention that targets three key asthma management issues in youth: 1) smoking reduction or cessation in those who are smokers, 2) improving adherence to asthma controller medication use, and 3) improving compliance of carrying a rescue inhaler at all times for use at the first sign of asthma symptoms. Puff City Ga. is a replication study in the rural southeastern United States that adds biological assessments in addition to self-report data.
General Asthma Education	General Asthma Education	Students will be directed to generic public websites on asthma and smoking that contain helpful information on general asthma management.

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