Clinical trial NCT05013788: Using Social Media to Decrease Healthcare Utilization for Pediatric Asthma
Official title: Using Social Media to Decrease Healthcare Utilization for Pediatric Asthma: a Pilot Randomized Control Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Asthma in Children
Keywords: Social Media
Pediatric Asthma
Healthcare Utilization
Lead sponsor: The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)
First posted: 2021-08-19
Enrollment: 200
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 3
Maximum age (years): 17
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to evaluate if social media enhanced education (SME) will reduce total number of treatment days defined as summation of days of subsequent hospital admission, emergency room visits, and clinic visits, reduce missed school days, reduce total costs from a health system perspective, have increased effect with increased social media engagement, have increased effect in participants with both caregiver and patient (combined) with social media accounts, compared to participants where only the patient or only the caregiver uses social media (single),have increased patient satisfaction in the asthma education received and to obtain the experience and data needed to refine SME to be able to expand this platform for other chronic medical conditions with high healthcare utilization including pediatric diabetes, epilepsy, and sickle cell disease in children with asthma.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* hospitalized to Children's Memorial Hermann admitted for asthma exacerbation
* patient and/or primary caregiver must have internet access on cellular phones or at home and use a social media account (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and/or Snapchat)

Exclusion Criteria:

* other chronic conditions besides asthma that may necessitate frequent health care utilization. i.e. children with complex chronic conditions, sickle cell, seizures, diabetes.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Total number of treatment days in a medical setting (hospital, emergency department (ED), clinic)
timeFrame: 1 year after enrollment
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Total number of hospitalizations
timeFrame: 1 year after enrollment
measure: total number of readmissions
timeFrame: 1 year after enrollment
measure: total number of emergency room visits
timeFrame: 1 year after enrollment
measure: total number of clinic visits
timeFrame: 1 year after enrollment
measure: patient satisfaction and understanding of asthma education
timeFrame: 1 year after enrollment
measure: number of missed days of school
timeFrame: 1 year after enrollment
measure: total estimated health system costs, hospital costs, and clinic costs
timeFrame: 1 year after enrollment
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Houston
country: United States
facility: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
state: Texas
Study officials:
affiliation: The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
name: Monica Kodakandla, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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