Randomised Controlled Trial of a Multi-faceted Community-based Intervention to Improve Asthma in Children

NCT00238888 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 298

Last updated 2017-04-20

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Summary

The objectives of this trials are to demonstrate, in children with poorly controlled asthma, that an intervention to increase the awareness and the impact of poor asthma control among parents and physicians of affected children and adolescents can reduce the rate of asthma emergency visits in the 12 months following the initiation of the intervention.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

asthma control awareness

Repeated assessments of the child's asthma control using the Asthma Quiz for Kidz, with recommendation for asthma education and medical visit

PROCEDURE

Usual care

Recommendation for asthma education and/or follow-up at the physician's discretion

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec

    collaborator OTHER_GOV
  • GlaxoSmithKline

    collaborator INDUSTRY
  • McGill University Health Centre/Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Francine M. Ducharme, MD, MSc · CHUS-Ste Justine Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
5 Years
Max Age
17 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2002-08-31
Primary Completion
2007-04-30
Completion
2011-12-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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Entities

Diseases

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