Intervention to Improve Asthma Management/Prevention

June 23, 2005 updated by: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
To implement and evaluate a comprehensive asthma education and prevention program in all 54 public elementary schools in the predominantly minority Birmingham, Alabama school system.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Detailed Description

BACKGROUND:

The study was part of an initiative "Interventions to Improve Asthma Management and Prevention at School". The Broad Agency Announcement was released in June, 1994.

DESIGN NARRATIVE:

The study had several objectives. The first was to demonstrate that a comprehensive school-based asthma education program could be implemented, using existing resources, in a largely poor, inner city educational environment. The second objective was to provide broad information on asthma and its management to elementary school faculties in order to help reduce fear and anxiety due to lack of knowledge about asthma. The third was to provide curriculum-based information about asthma to the general student bodies of elementary schools. The fourth objective was to institute a cost effective screening program that would identify elementary school students with asthma. The fifth was to provide an education program designed to improve knowledge and prevention. The sixth was to develop an individual asthma action plan for students with asthma that would improve their management and prevention skills and to coordinate the individual asthma action plan with school personnel and activities in order to improve support for the students in following their management plans.

The program was evaluated through a randomized controlled design with the schools as the unit of randomization and the students the unit of analysis. The Birmingham public schools were divided into three cohorts of 18 schools each on the basis of geographic location. Schools were randomly assigned within cohorts so that nine schools were experimental and nine were control. The research protocol was implemented in the first cohort in the fall of 1995, in the second cohort in the fall of 1996, and in the third cohort in the fall of 1997. Students with asthma were followed for three school terms following collection of baseline data and implementation of the education program. Outcomes were assessed in terms of school absences and performance, health care utilization, quality of life and asthma morbidity during school.

Study Type

Observational

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

Male

Description

No eligibility criteria

Study Plan

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Collaborators and Investigators

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Sponsor

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

Investigators

  • William Bailey, University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start

September 1, 1995

Study Completion

September 1, 2002

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

May 25, 2000

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

May 25, 2000

First Posted (Estimate)

May 26, 2000

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

June 24, 2005

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

June 23, 2005

Last Verified

March 1, 2005

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Other Study ID Numbers

  • 4943

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