Project ASTHMA - Aligning With Schools To Help Manage Asthma and Improve Outcomes

University at Buffalo (UB)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Asthma in Children; Directly Observed Therapy

Treatments: Other: APP assessment and management of asthma

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT06539312

R01MD018384 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

STUDY00007712

Details and patient eligibility

About

Children with asthma from communities that experience health inequities frequently do not receive guideline-based asthma care, and as a result, account for a disproportionate percentage of asthma exacerbations, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations. Project ASTHMA (Aligning with Schools To Help Manage Asthma) tests the effectiveness of school-based health centers as a delivery model to improve health outcomes by providing children with guideline-based asthma assessments and preventive medication management, directly observed therapy of their preventive medication to support adherence, and self-management support. If successful, this multicomponent intervention will represent a cost effective and sustainable model to reduce asthma morbidity in historically marginalized communities, and has the potential to impact communities throughout the United States where over 2,500 school-based health centers operate.

Enrollment: 400 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 4 to 13 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• uncontrolled asthma

Exclusion criteria

• other chronic lung disease such as cystic fibrosis

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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400 participants in 2 patient groups

SBHC group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: APP assessment and management of asthma

PCP group

No Intervention group