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Improving Parent Understanding of Instructions About Asthma Care

NCT01405625 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 449

Last updated 2018-10-05

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Asthma has an especially great impact on poor urban children and their families. In addition to higher asthma prevalence and morbidity, those in low SES urban areas are at risk for low health literacy. Low health literacy is associated with poorer asthma outcomes. The provision of a written asthma action plan has been shown to help with asthma management and to reduce hospitalizations and ER visits. Poor urban families who may have low literacy may need an alternative asthma action plan to convey the treatment plan.

This pilot study proposes to investigate whether a plain language asthma action plan can improve parent understanding and adherence with medication instructions, compared to standard written materials, among parents of children with asthma. This is an RCT in which parents of children with asthma will be randomized to either receive a pictogram-based low literacy asthma action plan, or a standard action plan (AAAAI), to examine whether those who receive the low literacy plan have improved asthma action plan knowledge when presented with a hypothetical scenario.

A second part of the study is to examine whether providers who are given the pictogram-based low literacy asthma action plan will be more likely to counsel about certain aspects of asthma management (eg. need for daily medications even when sick, spacer use, confusion between everyday and rescue inhaler)compared to providers who receive use a standard action plan (AAAAI). This is an RCT in which pediatric providers are randomized to counsel a hypothetical patient using the pictogram-based action plan or the standard action plan (AAAAI).

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Pictogram-based asthma action plan

Asthma action plan using plain language, pictograms, and photographs

OTHER

AAAAI standard of care written action plan

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

    collaborator OTHER

  • NYU Langone Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Suzy Tomopoulos, MD · NYU School of Medicine

  • Shonna (Hsiang) Yin, MD · NYU School of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-07-31
Primary Completion
2018-03-31
Completion
2018-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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