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Developing Children Asthma Program (CAP) in promoting health outcomes among school children

Effect of the Children Asthma Program (CAP) on level of asthma knowledge among school children with asthma and their caregivers

Status
Completed
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ANZCTR
Registry ID
ACTRN12615000582550
Enrollment
340
Registered
2015-06-03
Start date
2015-04-15
Completion date
2016-02-05
Last updated
2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

A prospective, longitudinal, cluster randomized clinical trial involving two-group , will be used to evaluate the outcome of Children Asthma Program (CAP).

Interventions

The Children Asthma Program will be implemented to provide education activities to promote the prevention of recurrent and management of asthma among the school children. School children will be divided to two groups ( intervention group and control group ) The intervention group they will receive face to face class room learning. Only one session face to face learning will be given to students for 1 hour. Following the face to face learning online mobile learning will be administer for 3 month

The Children Asthma Program will be implemented to provide education activities to promote the prevention of recurrent and management of asthma among the school children. School children will be divided to two groups ( intervention group and control group ) The intervention group they will receive face to face class room learning. Only one session face to face learning will be given to students for 1 hour. Following the face to face learning online mobile learning will be administer for 3 months which will be electronic alternative for hand workbook tool, the frequency and duration of use of the mobile application it will be flexible and according to user prefer to use it during 3 months. The parents of children will not receive face to face education only we will give them clarifying session about using mobile application and how to using it to help their children in dealing with mobile application Baseline data will be collected before the intervention one month after intervention and at third month.

Sponsors

Dr.Chong Mei Chan
Lead SponsorIndividual

Study design

Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Open (masking not used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All
Age
13 Years to 70 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

School children: 1) known case of asthma 2) availability to participate in scheduled classes sessions 3) able to understand and communicate in Malay or English Family caregiver: 1) being a designated caregiver of school children with asthma 2) able to understand English or Malay 3) willing to attend and participate in the community component

Exclusion criteria

School children or caregivers who are unwilling to participate.

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ANZCTR · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026