Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Particulate Reduction Education in City Homes (PREACH)
Brief Summary: The purpose of this study is to conduct a randomized controlled trial of the efficacy of a combination of HEPA room air cleaners plus an ETS reduction behavior training as compared to either HEPA air cleaners plus standard asthma education or delayed HEPA air cleaners and standard asthma education (control group).


Options:
A: DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

* Parents or guardians meeting the following criteria:

  * Self-identified as smokers on the baseline survey
  * Must have a child who is seen by a pediatrician in a participating practice

    * Child must not have a medically emergent condition that requires transfer outside the practice for immediate medical intervention
  * Must be present at the child's healthcare visit
* Pediatric practice meeting the following criteria:

  * Participates in the Pediatric Research in Office Settings (PROS) network
  * Practice manager and a majority of pediatricians are willing to implement a tobacco control strategy for parental smokers
  * Cares for at least 2,000 families
  * Located in a geographically distinct location to minimize contamination effects of the intervention

    * No practices at the same geographic location

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

* Have a telephone at home (parent or guardian)
* Able to speak English (parent or guardian)
* Have a working fax machine (practice)

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

* No prior enrollment in this study during a previous visit to the pediatric healthcare clinician (parent or guardian)
* No prior participation in phase II focus groups or other pilot tobacco control studies (practice)
* No active enrollment of patients onto other PROS trials (practice)
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* Must be 18 years of age or older.
* Must speak and understand English.
* Must smoke and live with at least one other non-smoking person OR be a non-smoker who lives with a smoker(s).
* Must not have a total smoking ban in their home.

Exclusion Criteria:

* None
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* born in 2005, 2006 or 2007,
* being exposed to environmental tobacco smoke at home by at least one parent, living in the study region of west pommerania

Exclusion Criteria:
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* An eligible child will be defined as:

  * Age 6-12 years
  * Doctor's diagnosis of asthma
  * Currently having persistent asthma, defined as asthma symptoms or use of quick reliever asthma medication \> 2 days/week in the last 2 weeks or use of daily controller asthma medication in past 2 weeks based on parent report.
  * Reside in eligible household at least 5 days per week

Household:

* Located in Baltimore
* Housing an eligible child
* Housing an English speaking family
* Housing at least one smoker, who smokes 5 or more cigarettes per day. Smoking in the car will be recorded, but if ETS exposure is limited to the car, the household is not eligible.
* Having working electricity and no major structural damage.
* Having no working air cleaner

Exclusion Criteria:

* Children will be excluded is they have other respiratory morbidity such as cystic fibrosis or bronchopulmonary dysplasia, if they smoke cigarettes, if they do not have asthma symptoms or medication use in the month before randomization
* Families living in a shelter or transitional housing will be excluded

Answer: D