Promoting Asthma Wellness in Rural Communities

Augusta University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Asthma

Treatments: Behavioral: General Asthma Education; Behavioral: Puff City GA

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01170676

R01HL092412

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a research study that compares the effectiveness of a web-based program (known as Puff City) and another web-based program (of internet sites such as the American Lung Association, American Academy of Asthma, Allergy, and Immunology, etc) that targets five key asthma management issues among rural youth:

1. Improving adherence to asthma controller medication use;
2. Improving compliance of carrying a rescue inhaler at all times for use at the first sign of asthma symptoms;
3. Improving inhaler technique;
4. Smoking reduction or cessation in those who are smokers; and
5. Avoidance of second-hand smoke exposure.

Full description

A randomized control trial across three southeastern rural high schools comparing a web-based tailored intervention (known as Puff City) to web-based traditional control education sites.

Enrollment: 700 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 14 to 21 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• AA ethnicity
• in 9th - 11th grade of selected rural schools
• have an asthma diagnosis and/or asthma-like symptoms by screening eligible on the Lung Health Survey
• have access to a telephone or mobile phone
• being the parent of a student meeting the above criteria with whom the student resides the majority of the time.

Exclusion criteria

• Not meeting the above criteria.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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700 participants in 2 patient groups

Puff City GA

Experimental group

Description:

Puff City is an NHLBI-funded (C. Joseph, PI; Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI), web-based intervention that targets three key asthma management issues in youth: 1) smoking reduction or cessation in those who are smokers, 2) improving adherence to asthma controller medication use, and 3) improving compliance of carrying a rescue inhaler at all times for use at the first sign of asthma symptoms. Puff City Ga. is a replication study in the rural southeastern United States that adds biological assessments in addition to self-report data.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Puff City GA

General Asthma Education

Active Comparator group

Description:

Students will be directed to generic public websites on asthma and smoking that contain helpful information on general asthma management.

Treatment:

Behavioral: General Asthma Education