Improving Asthma Care by Partnering With School Nurses to Bring Asthma Care Into the Inner-City Schools

Summary

This is a pilot study to improve the partnership between Cincinnati Children's Medical Center (CCHMC), Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS), and Cincinnati Health Department (CHD) to reduce childhood asthma in the inner city schools of Cincinnati and CCHMC. We are calling this project "asthma-free schools" and bringing it to neighborhoods where the incidence of asthma is especially high. We have designed this study to work with school-based asthma care programs. Children with high-risk asthma will be asked to participate. "High-risk" will be defined as poorly controlled asthma, frequent school absences, and/or need for daily controller asthma medications. We will use a commercially available inhaler cap sensor to help track medication use and symptoms through a smartphone. The study visits will be done mostly at the school using telehealth technology similar to Skype.

Conditions

• Asthma

Interventions

DEVICE

Sensor cap system for inhalers

All subjects will be given a commercially available inhaler cap with monitoring sensor on clinically prescribed asthma inhalers.

OTHER

App for SmartPhone

All subjects will be given smart phone with mobile software management platform to motivate and record medication adherence.

BEHAVIORAL

Motivational interviews

All subjects will have motivational telehealth visits to assess adherence and promote problem-solving skills

OTHER

Telehealth clinic visits

All subjects will have asthma medical visits via telehealth technology to assess asthma control.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Verizon Foundation

  collaborator OTHER

• Luther Foundation

  collaborator OTHER

• Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Theresa Guilbert, MD · Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

Study Design

Allocation

NA

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age

10 Years

Max Age

17 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2016-01-31

Primary Completion

2018-11-29

Completion

2018-11-29

Countries

• United States

Study Locations