Using Social Media to Decrease Healthcare Utilization for Pediatric Asthma

Not Applicable

Active, not recruiting

• Conditions: Asthma in Children
• Interventions: Other: Usual Asthma Education; Other: Social Media Enhanced Education

• Registration Number: NCT05013788
• Lead Sponsor: The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate if social media enhanced education (SME) will reduce total number of treatment days defined as summation of days of subsequent hospital admission, emergency room visits, and clinic visits, reduce missed school days, reduce total costs from a health system perspective, have increased effect with increased social media engagement, have increased effect in participants with both caregiver and patient (combined) with social media accounts, compared to participants where only the patient or only the caregiver uses social media (single),have increased patient satisfaction in the asthma education received and to obtain the experience and data needed to refine SME to be able to expand this platform for other chronic medical conditions with high healthcare utilization including pediatric diabetes, epilepsy, and sickle cell disease in children with asthma.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2021-08-13
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-08-13
• Study First Posted: 2021-08-19
• Study Start: 2021-10-01
• Status Verified: 2024-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-02-13
• Last Update Posted: 2024-02-15
• Primary Completion: 2024-09-30
• Study Completion: 2024-09-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

• hospitalized to Children's Memorial Hermann admitted for asthma exacerbation
• patient and/or primary caregiver must have internet access on cellular phones or at home and use a social media account (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and/or Snapchat)

Exclusion Criteria

• other chronic conditions besides asthma that may necessitate frequent health care utilization. i.e. children with complex chronic conditions, sickle cell, seizures, diabetes.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Control Group	Usual Asthma Education	-
Treatment	Social Media Enhanced Education	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Total number of treatment days in a medical setting (hospital, emergency department (ED), clinic)	1 year after enrollment	Treatment days are defined as the summation of days in the hospital, ED, or in the clinic.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
total number of clinic visits	1 year after enrollment
total number of readmissions	1 year after enrollment
total number of emergency room visits	1 year after enrollment
Total number of hospitalizations	1 year after enrollment
patient satisfaction and understanding of asthma education	1 year after enrollment	This is a 13 item questionnaire each question is rated from 1 to 5 a higher number indicating a better outcome
number of missed days of school	1 year after enrollment
total estimated health system costs, hospital costs, and clinic costs	1 year after enrollment

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; 🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States