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Addressing Barriers to Physical Activity in Inner-City Schoolchildren With Asthma

NCT01873755 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 208

Last updated 2023-05-31

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Summary

This proposal will address the existent gaps in the literature by identifying barriers and facilitators to participation in physical activity in inner-city minority elementary schoolchildren with asthma, more that half of whom are also overweight; developing and refining a school-based intervention in partnership with the community to improve physical activity; and conducting a pilot randomized controlled trial of the intervention to determine feasibility and obtain preliminary data for a future large-scale trial.

Conditions

  • Asthma
  • Children
  • Physical Activity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

asthma physical activity intervention

School- and community-based intervention includes several components: a classroom-based physical activity program, asthma awareness week at the school, asthma education for parents and students enrolled in the study, collaboration with child's physician to ensure proper medical treatment of child's asthma asthma education for school personnel

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • Montefiore Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Marina Reznik, MD, MS · Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-12-05
Primary Completion
2014-05-28
Completion
2014-06-20

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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