ENLaCE Pilot Study
Condition: Asthma
MeSH terms: Asthma
Study type: Interventional

Summary: 
      This is a feasibility study to determine whether the Expanding Networks for Latinos through
      Community Engagement (ENLaCE) can be used to recruit Latino children into a randomized,
      controlled trial (RCT) to improve their asthma medication device technique. Children will be
      recruited from two pediatric ENLaCE clinics in Greensboro and randomly assigned to watch
      device technique videos (experimental group; n=50) or a nutrition video (control group, n=50)
      in Spanish or English after a regularly-scheduled medical visit. Children's device technique
      will be assessed before and after the visit. Process evaluation data will also be collected.
      The investigators hypothesize that children in the intervention group will have better device
      technique post-intervention than the control group.
    

Detailed description: 
      Asthma affects almost 10% of children and is the most common health condition reported by
      North Carolina public schools. Latino children have higher rates of uncontrolled asthma and
      more asthma-related emergency department visits than their White counterparts. No studies
      have evaluated Latino children's asthma device technique; poor technique can compromise
      medication delivery to the lungs.

      The TraCS engagement core has spent the last 18 months developing the Expanding Networks for
      Latinos through Community Engagement (ENLaCE) network, which is comprised of over 15
      organizations in the Greensboro area. The core would now like to conduct a feasibility study
      to determine whether ENLaCE can be used to recruit Latino children into a randomized,
      controlled trial (RCT) to improve their asthma medication device technique. This would be the
      first assessment of whether ENLaCE can be used to recruit patients.

      MEDUCATION, an NIH-funded project developed by Polyglot Systems, Inc., has developed asthma
      device technique videos in Spanish and English. The member groups of ENLaCE believe the
      MEDUCATION videos are highly relevant for the Greensboro Latino community. Children will be
      recruited from two pediatric ENLaCE clinics in Greensboro and randomly assigned to watch
      device technique videos (experimental group; n=50) or a nutrition video (control group, n=50)
      in Spanish or English after a regularly-scheduled medical visit. Children's device technique
      will be assessed before and after the visit. Process evaluation data will also be collected.
    

Intervention name(s): Meducation device technique video; Nutrition video
Intervention type(s): Behavioral; Other
Intervention description(s): 2-minute video that displays proper inhaler, diskus, and turbuhaler technique. The video will only be watched once at the medical visit. Children in this group will be given a wallet card so they can access the video via the Internet after leaving the asthma clinic.; Children in this group will watch a 2-minute nutrition video.
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary purpose: Health Services Research