None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Our specific aim is to examine the effect of health worker education intervention on asthma outcomes using a randomised controlled trial. All children involved in the study will receive routine culturally appropriate intervention and thus the community will benefit in general. Additional asthma education by health workers using education material specially developed for the region can directly and indirectly improve the care of children with asthma ultimately with better asthma outcomes. Assuming the study hypothesis is correct, that children who receive additional asthma education by health worker have better asthma outcomes, the possible beneficial outcomes (educational interventions for improved asthma control) of this study can significantly affect rural communities at the regional and potentially national levels. In addition, a culturally appropriate method to reinforce asthma education could be used in the wider Indigenous community to improve asthma outcomes.
Interventions
Additional asthma education intervention by local Health Workers with children and their parents. Children selected to receive the extra education will have additional visits from the health worker for their asthma. The children selected to receive the intervention (additional asthma education) will receive a personalised child friendly booklet and will have three visits from the health worker for their asthma (about 1 month, 3 months and 6 months after the clinical consultation). All children
Additional asthma education intervention by local Health Workers with children and their parents. Children selected to receive the extra education will have additional visits from the health worker for their asthma. The children selected to receive the intervention (additional asthma education) will receive a personalised child friendly booklet and will have three visits from the health worker for their asthma (about 1 month, 3 months and 6 months after the clinical consultation). All children will be followed up for 12 months (from the day of 1st clinical assessment).
Sponsors
Telstra Foundation, the Royal Childrens Hospital Foundation
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
0 to 18 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
All children seen by the research team diagnosed with asthma will be eligible to take part in the study. After fully informed consent is obtained from the parent(s), the child will be randomly allocated to one of the two treatment regimes.
Exclusion criteria
No exclusion criteria
Outcome results
None listed