Clinical trial NCT02602392: Online Asthma Self-Management for Children Aged 5-10 and Their Parents
Official title: Online Asthma Self-Management for Children Aged 5-10 and Their Parents
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE2
Conditions: Asthma
Keywords: Self management
Education
Children
Caregivers
Health Care Providers
Lead sponsor: Oregon Center for Applied Science, Inc.
Sponsor class: INDUSTRY
First posted: 2015-11-11
Enrollment: 622
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 5
Maximum age (years): 75
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL

Brief summary: The potential benefits of this research to public health include improved understanding of cultural factors in pediatric asthma self-management, improved self-management skills for children, and better asthma management skills for their parents. This could result in eased suffering and improved quality of life for millions of children and their families, and also reduce the economic burden borne by society in the forms of medical expenditures and lost productivity.

Detailed description: This proposal will create an interactive multimedia (IMM) program designed to support the self-management efforts of asthmatic children aged 5-10 years and their families. This behavior change program will be designed to promote self-management by (a) increasing child and caregiver knowledge about asthma, (b) encouraging compliance with medication protocols and environmental controls, and (c) increasing self-efficacy to create and implement an Asthma Action Plan.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Children aged 5-10 with physican-diagnosed asthma and who had been prescribed any type of asthma medication, and one of their parents or primary caregivers. Parents and children needed to have access to an internet- and video-capable computer, and the parent needed to have a valid e-mail address in order to receive study-related correspondence.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Only English-speaking participants were accepted because the program was developed only for English speakers. Children less than 5 years of age and older than 10 were excluded because the program is developed targeted to the developmental abilities and interests of children aged 5-10. There were no exclusions based on race/ethnicity.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from baseline in children's knowledge about asthma
timeFrame: 45 days
measure: Change from baseline in parents' knowledge about asthma
timeFrame: 45 days
measure: Change from baseline in children's attitudes toward medication
timeFrame: 45 days
measure: Change from baseline in parents' attitudes about asthma self-management
timeFrame: 45 days
measure: Change from baseline in children's self-efficacy to improve asthma self-management
timeFrame: 45 days
measure: Change from baseline in parents' self-efficacy to improve asthma self-management
timeFrame: 45 days
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change from baseline in Asthma Control Test
timeFrame: 45 days
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Eugene
country: United States
facility: Oregon Center for Applied Science
state: Oregon
Study officials:
affiliation: Oregon Center for Applied Science
name: Susan Schroeder, MPH, MCHES
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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