Reducing Asthma Disparities Through School-Based Telemedicine for Rural Children

Summary

The overall goal of this proposal is to examine the efficacy of a school-based asthma telemedicine intervention in a predominately minority, low-income rural pediatric population.

Conditions

• Asthma
• Quality of Life
• Children

Interventions

OTHER

Asthma Education Sessions

Comprehensive asthma education sessions delivered via telemedicine.

OTHER

Asthma Health Assessment via Telemonitoring

Each intervention participant will undergo assessment of asthma via school-based telemonitoring to measure lung function and provide a self-report of asthma symptoms.

OTHER

Provider Treatment Prompt

A treatment prompt will be mailed to the primary care provider at baseline and 3 months.

OTHER

School Absenteeism

Absenteeism before and after the intervention will be compared in the intervention group and also will be compared to absentee rates of the usual care group.

OTHER

Prescription Filling Profile

Study personnel will monitor participants' prescription profiles.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

  collaborator NIH

• University of Arkansas

  collaborator OTHER

• Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Tamara T. Perry, M.D. · University of Arkansas

Study Design

Allocation

NA

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age

7 Years

Max Age

14 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2011-05-25

Primary Completion

2017-02-01

Completion

2017-02-01

Countries

• United States

Study Locations