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Personalised Outcomes in Children With Recurrent Wheeze

NCT03858010 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 500

Last updated 2022-03-21

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Summary

This project aims to develop a PROM for preschool children with recurrent wheeze. Nearly one third of children will have at least one episode of wheeze in the first five years of life. The majority of these children grow out of the condition in early school years. However, their families go through challenging times often with numerous emergency department admissions and hospitalizations. Hospital admission rates for preschool children with wheeze attacks remain high and are increasing in the UK. New treatments have become available, but although current treatments speed recovery from a wheeze attack, still many children visit hospitals for rescue medications and medical reviews. Recent Australian data show that one fourth of these children remain at emergency departments for a less than four hours period, suggesting that with better information and education, these children could have remained at home.

Justification-Significance of the work By understanding what really matters for these families, clinicians and stakeholders will be better able to design interventions that will reduce the hospital attendances and admissions by empowering parents to manage their children's condition. More specifically, this tool will assist GPs identify which of these children need to be reviewed by specialists, aid holistic management, ensure interventions are meaningful for families and assess the benefits of novel treatments.

Methodology The items of the questionnaire have been generated through discussions with families in a qualitative research study conducted by the research team. These items will be refined and the questionnaire will be tested with families in different healthcare settings. Researchers will assess how well this questionnaire is identifying the children who present with greater number of hospital admissions and will be benefited from suggested interventions. The data will be analysed and based on the results, amendments will be made to the questionnaire, which can will then be introduced in the routine management of these children.

Conditions

  • Asthma in Children

Interventions

DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Wheeze and me questionnaire

validation of questionnaire assessing disease control and quality of life in preschool children with recurrent wheeze

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mando Watson · Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Eligibility

Min Age
2 Years
Max Age
5 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-08-13
Primary Completion
2022-06-01
Completion
2022-06-05

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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