Home Visits to Optimize Medical and Educational Success Among Sacramento Schoolchildren With Asthma

University of California (UC) Davis

Status: Completed

Conditions: Asthma; Chronic School Absenteeism

Treatments: Behavioral: Standard Care; Behavioral: Home Visit

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03335046

1114637

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will establish a multi-disciplinary home visitation team consisting of a medical provider and school teacher or staff member, and will evaluate whether a series of visits from this team will help decrease school absenteeism among children with asthma.

Enrollment: 11 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Students in elementary school (K-6) in the Sacramento City Unified School District
• Identified as at risk for chronic absenteeism based on previous year and/or first 8 weeks of school year
• Have a current diagnosis of asthma

Exclusion criteria

• Underlying chronic conditions such as cystic fibrosis, chronic lung disease with oxygen dependence, immunodeficiency syndromes

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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11 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention arm will receive the home visit intervention, consisting of 2 visits to the home by a team consisting of a pediatric medical provider and a school teacher or school support staff member. This team will evaluate the child's home environment to assess for potential asthma triggers that may lead to school absenteeism, and provide strategies and material goods to help reduce those triggers.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Home Visit

Wait-List Control

Other group

Description:

The control group will receive standard interventions carried out by the school system for students at risk for chronic absenteeism. Following the study observation period, this control group will then receive the home visits performed for the intervention group.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Home Visit

Behavioral: Standard Care