Appropriate Care of URI (ACURI): Early Head Start

Columbia University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Upper Respiratory Infection

Treatments: Behavioral: Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01916031

AAAD7081

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to comparatively assess the effectiveness of a tailored educational intervention to improve health literacy levels regarding upper respiratory infections (URIs) and to decrease pediatric emergency department (PED) visits, among Latino households in Early Head Start.

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Attending an infant or toddler EHS group at participating site

Exclusion criteria

• Participant in pilot study
• Participant in community intervention regarding URI

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 2 patient groups

Education

Experimental group

Description:

Upper Respiratory Infection education in Fall

Treatment:

Behavioral: Education

Standard Curriculum

No Intervention group