Children's Health in Asthma: Research to Improve Status through Modifying Accommodatio

Completed

• Conditions: Moderate or severe asthma in children; Respiratory; Asthma

• Registration Number: ISRCTN13912429
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Wales Bangor (UK)

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2007-07-19
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2015

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: Not specified
• Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

1. Children aged 5 - 15 at recruitment
2. Living in Wrexham County Borough Council
3. On list of participating general practice
4. Ttaking inhaled steroids for asthma (three or more prescriptions over a 12 month period)
5. Written consent from parent or guardian to take part, complete questionnaires, and allow access to childs medical records

Exclusion Criteria

1. Cystic fibrosis
2. Likely to move of the Wrexham County Borough Council area within 12 months
3. Ventilation system already installed and central heating already aequate at pre-randomisation base line

Where a household contains two or more eligible children, one participant is chosen at random as the index case for whom outcomes are assessed.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Parental assessment of the child's asthma-specific quality of life (PedQL asthma module) four and twelve months after randomisation. Baseline PedQL will be used as a covariate.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. General health-related quality of life (PedQL core module), school attendance and the use of health care including medication<br>2. An economic analysis will compare costs