Environmental Intervention to Reduce Allergens in Urban Schools and Childhood Asthma

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Asthma
• Interventions: Other: air purifier; Other: integrated pest management; Other: Sham air purifier

• Registration Number: NCT01913795
• Lead Sponsor: Boston Children's Hospital

Brief Summary

The investigators aim to pilot the role of school based intervention consisting of enhanced integrated pest management, classroom air purifiers and cleaning improves asthma morbidity.

Detailed Description

By piloting this school based intervention, the investigators hope to learn from this study the best way to design and implement more cost and time efficient large-based school-based environmental interventions that may potentially help a community of children with asthma, allergic diseases, and its associated morbidity.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-05
• Study First Submitted: 2013-05-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-07-29
• Study First Posted: 2013-08-01
• Primary Completion: 2015-07
• Results First Submitted: 2015-07-29
• Study Completion: 2015-08
• Results First Submitted QC: 2015-09-15
• Results First Posted: 2015-10-14
• Status Verified: 2022-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-06-05
• Last Update Posted: 2022-06-07

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 29

Inclusion Criteria

• grades K-8 with asthma attending sampling/intervention schools

Exclusion Criteria

• moving schools

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Active Air Purifier and Control	air purifier	4 air purifiers and no school integrated pest management environmental intervention
Environmental Intervention	integrated pest management	4 classroom air purifiers and school integrated pest management environmental intervention
Environmental Intervention	air purifier	4 classroom air purifiers and school integrated pest management environmental intervention
Sham and Integrated Pest Management	integrated pest management	4 classroom sham air purifiers and school integrated pest management
Sham and Control	Sham air purifier	4 sham air purifiers and no school integrated pest management environmental intervention

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Asthma Symptoms	over a two week period at Baseline and Months 3, 6, 9 and 12	number of days of wheezing/cough

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Lung Function	measured at baseline and months 6 and 12	peak expiratory flow (PEF)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Boston Children's Hospital; 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States