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

Montefiore Medicine Academic Health System

Status: Completed

Conditions: Asthma; Physical Activity; Children

Treatments: Behavioral: asthma physical activity intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01873755

5K23HD065742 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

2012-443

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full description

Four schools have been recruited for pilot wait-listed cluster randomized clinical trial to determine feasibility for a large-scaled trial. Community-based participatory research approach was utilized to develop an intervention that will be delivered to two schools. Two control schools will receive intervention during year 2 of the study.

Enrollment: 208 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• children with active asthma attending 2nd-4th grades in Bronx

Exclusion criteria

• other medical conditions preventing participation in physical activity

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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208 participants in 1 patient group

asthma physical activity intervention

Experimental group

Description:

two schools will receive intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: asthma physical activity intervention