Improving Asthma Care for Very Low Birth Weight Infants

University of Rochester

Status: Completed

Conditions: Asthma

Treatments: Behavioral: Asthma education for parents of very low birth weight infants

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00156507

09653

Details and patient eligibility

About

Children born less than 1500 grams are being enrolled into a study to test the effectiveness of a parental educational intervention in reducing the risk of future breathing problems. The intervention teaches parents of these children how to reduce the risk of / and recognize breathing problems.

Enrollment: 192 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 30 days to 1 year old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Premature babies weighing less than 1500 grams at birth receiving care at Strong Memorial Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Exclusion criteria

• Non-English speaking parents

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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192 participants in 1 patient group

1

Experimental group

Description:

Parents of children in the experimental group receive asthma education prior to NICU discharge.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Asthma education for parents of very low birth weight infants