Environmental Intervention to Reduce Allergens in Urban Schools and Childhood Asthma

Boston Children's Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Asthma

Treatments: Other: Sham air purifier; Other: air purifier; Other: integrated pest management

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01913795

266134

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators aim to pilot the role of school based intervention consisting of enhanced integrated pest management, classroom air purifiers and cleaning improves asthma morbidity.

Full description

By piloting this school based intervention, the investigators hope to learn from this study the best way to design and implement more cost and time efficient large-based school-based environmental interventions that may potentially help a community of children with asthma, allergic diseases, and its associated morbidity.

Enrollment: 29 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 4 to 15 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• grades K-8 with asthma attending sampling/intervention schools

Exclusion criteria

• moving schools

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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29 participants in 4 patient groups, including a placebo group

Environmental Intervention

Active Comparator group

Description:

4 classroom air purifiers and school integrated pest management environmental intervention

Treatment:

Other: air purifier

Other: integrated pest management

Sham and Control

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

4 sham air purifiers and no school integrated pest management environmental intervention

Treatment:

Other: Sham air purifier

Active Air Purifier and Control

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

4 air purifiers and no school integrated pest management environmental intervention

Treatment:

Other: air purifier

Sham and Integrated Pest Management

Sham Comparator group

Description:

4 classroom sham air purifiers and school integrated pest management

Treatment:

Other: integrated pest management