Better Asthma Outcomes: Lowering Tobacco Smoke Exposure

October 27, 2014 updated by: Palo Alto Medical Foundation
To improve disease outcomes through reduction in secondhand tobacco smoke exposure of children with asthma

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

BACKGROUND:

Secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) exposure increases asthma morbidity in children. Efforts to reduce exposure have had mixed results. This study is a randomized controlled trial of an exposure reduction intervention, with objective feedback to parents on the child's exposure based on urine cotinine measurement, and counseling tailored to the child's specific exposure sources/locations and parental readiness to take specific actions to reduce exposure from each source/location. This trial involves 350 SHS-exposed children with persistent asthma, 3-12 years of age, receiving care from the Kaiser Health Care Program in Northern California. Primary outcomes over the 18 months of follow-up will be asthma acute care utilization and urine cotinine/creatine ratio. Changes in controller medication adherence will be evaluated using a pharmacy-based dispensing index.

DESIGN NARRATIVE:

Primary objective: To evaluate the efficacy of a behaviorally-based, cotinine-feedback-and-monitoring program designed to reduce SHS exposure in an 18-month randomized controlled trial (RCT) with 350 children with persistent asthma, 3-12 years of age, in comparison with usual medical care.

Secondary objectives: 1) to investigate the behavioral mechanisms that mediate between the intervention and associated improvements in asthma outcomes, and 2) to determine the influence of initial caregiver stage of change with regard to smoking practices on response to the intervention.

Hypotheses:

  1. Disease outcomes: A behaviorally-based, individually-tailored intervention that emphasizes SHS exposure reduction, provides sequential feedback to the parent on the child's urine cotinine level, and is tailored to the parent's stage of change with regard to smoking practices will be associated with decreased asthma crisis care utilization and improvements in secondary disease outcomes over an 18-month follow-up period when compared with usual medical care.
  2. ETS exposure: The SHS reduction intervention will be associated with lower SHS exposure at follow-up (assessed by urine cotinine/creatinine ratio), compared with usual medical care.
  3. Mechanism: Decreases in urine cotinine/creatinine ratio will be instrumental in intervention-associated improvements in asthma crisis care utilization.

Study Type

Interventional

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

3 years to 12 years (Child)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

  • Age 3-12 years
  • Kaiser member for >= 1 year
  • >= 1 asthma care visit in prior year
  • Persistent asthma likely based on prior year:

Physician diagnosis code of persistent asthma OR >= 4 beta agonist (BA) dispensing events OR >= 4 Anti-inflammatory (AI) dispensing events

  • Secondhand smoke exposure by parent report.
  • Parent agrees to participate in a clinical trial of a smoke exposure reduction interventio

Study Plan

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How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized

Collaborators and Investigators

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Sponsor

Palo Alto Medical Foundation

Collaborators

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Sandra Wilson, Res Inst, Palo Alto Med Fdn

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start

May 1, 2002

Primary Completion (Actual)

April 1, 2008

Study Completion (Actual)

April 1, 2008

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

September 19, 2005

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 19, 2005

First Posted (Estimate)

September 22, 2005

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

October 28, 2014

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

October 27, 2014

Last Verified

October 1, 2014

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Other Study ID Numbers

  • 295
  • R01HL070012 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

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