Asthma
Conditions
Keywords
peer mentor, health coach, parent support, parent mentor
Brief summary
There are 7.1 million children with asthma. Asthma is the cause of 10.5 million missed days of school, 7.5 million outpatient visits, 640,000 ED visits, and 157,000 hospitalization visits in 2008. Recent work has demonstrated that trained peer mentors (individuals from the community) can be effective in reducing hospitalizations for asthmatic children. This study will evaluate the efficacy of technology-driven parent-to-parent mentoring to reduce asthma-related pediatric hospitalizations and emergency department visits.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALParent-to-parent mentoring
phone, SMS/text, and smartphone-based support
Sponsors
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Montefiore Medical Center
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Washington University School of Medicine
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
InquisitHealth, Inc.
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
3 Years to 12 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Parent of child with persistent asthma, prescription of controller medications, and at least one asthma exacerbation in the past year
Exclusion criteria
* Parent has no access to smartphone
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Number of hospital admissions | 1-year |
| Number of emergency department visits | 1-year |
Countries
United States
Contacts
Primary ContactAshwin Patel, MD PhD
Outcome results
None listed