Respiratory Health Study of Children in Kiryat Tivon

Israel Healthcare Foundation

Status: Completed

Conditions: Bronchial Asthma; Allergy; Signs and Symptoms, Respiratory

Treatments: Device: Minato A 500 AS spirometer

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00331929

HTA 3653

Ped-2/2006

CMC 06013904

Details and patient eligibility

About

Kiryat Tivon is located close to a major industrial zone. The aim of the study is to evaluate the health status of children living in K. Tivon.

The health status will be evaluated using health questionnaires and spirometry.

Full description

Kiryat Tivon is located close to a major industrial zone. The aim of the study is to evaluate the health status of children living in K. Tivon.

The health status will be evaluated while using health questionnaires and spirometry.

Objective: To evaluate the respiratory health of K. Tivon children with comparatives, with respect to local air pollution levels.

Material and Methods: All the school children from K. Tivon (1800 children) will be included in the study, after both parents and the children (above 12 years of age) will sign an informed consent form.

First step: A health questionnaire (based on Hebrew version of ISAAC questionnaire) will be filled in by the parents.

Second step: Spirometry checking of the children.

In parallel, air pollution levels will be measured and provided by a network of ground monitoring stations maintained by the Haifa District Municipality Association for the Environment (HDMAE). The station provides half-hourly measurement of mean concentrations of gaseous (NOX, SO2, O3) and particular (PM 10) pollutants over the entire investigation window. Additional meteorological data are also collected.

Risk maps: Using a GIS platform, we are developing a multi-layer risk mapping procedure which accounts for ambient concentrations of selected pollutants and the heterogenic spatial distribution of several demographic and socio-economic indexes in the region.

The prevalence of pulmonary disease will be evaluated according to the risk maps.

Enrollment: 638 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All school children

Exclusion criteria

• Children that their parents did not signed the informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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638 participants in 1 patient group

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Experimental group

Description:

Cohort of school children that evaluated with questionnaire and spirometry with MINATO 500 JAPAN spirometer

Treatment:

Device: Minato A 500 AS spirometer