Reducing Indoor Allergen Exposures in Northern Manhattan and the South Bronx

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Asthma; Allergy

Treatments: Procedure: Integrated Pest Management

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: NIH

Identifiers

NCT00023127

9142-CP-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

Controlled trial of an intervention to reduce indoor exposures to cockroach allergens among asthmatic children in NYC.

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Ages 6-18

Doctor-diagnosed asthma

Skin-test reactivity to cockroach antigen

Daily cockroach sitings in home

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)