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Does Improving Insulation and Heating Improve Health?

NCT00489762 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 409

Last updated 2007-06-21

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The Housing, Heating and Health Study has enrolled 409 households with ineffective heaters, who have a child with asthma between 6 and 12 years.

In the winter of 2005, houses were insulated and baseline measures taken of indoor temperatures, nitrogen dioxide, with more intensive indoor air quality monitoring in a sub-sample of 33 homes.

Objective data are being collected on the household's health and energy usage. The households randomly assigned to the intervention group will have new heaters installed over the summer.

Results will be available after the follow-up data collection in 2006.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Installation of an energy efficient heater

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Otago

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Philippa Howden-Chapman, PhD · Housing and Health Research Programme

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Max Age
12 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-06-30
Completion
2006-10-31

Countries

  • New Zealand

Study Locations

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Diseases

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