Asthma
Conditions
Brief summary
To determine if teaching rural children with asthma and their parents about appropriate medication use, asthma triggers unique to a rural setting and increasing access to medical care will result in a decrease in emergency department visits.
Detailed description
Many self-management asthma interventions have demonstrated increase in asthma knowledge, reduced emergency department visits, increased self-efficacy and quality of life. The type of self-management interventions, specifically individualized and interactive educational interventions, have been suggested to have the strongest effect on asthma morbidity. Few studies have tested asthma self-management educational interventions in increasing knowledge, self-efficacy and quality of life in rural pediatric populations. The goal of this study was to test the effectiveness of an asthma educational intervention in improving asthma knowledge in rural children and their parent/caregivers. We hypothesized that an interactive asthma educational intervention would increase parent/caregiver and child asthma knowledge resulting in decreased emergency room visits in rural families of children with asthma.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALNurse asthma education intervention
Asthma Education
BEHAVIORALControl Group
Asthma Education
Sponsors
National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
5 Years to 12 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Physician diagnosed asthma, attend elementary school in rural county agreeing to participate
Exclusion criteria
Participation in another asthma study or having other respiratory illness such as cystic fibrosis, BPD \-
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Decrease in emergency department visits | 10 months or 1 school year |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Asthma Education | 10 months or 1 school year |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed