A Multifaceted Prompting Intervention for Urban Children With Asthma (PAIR-UP)

January 15, 2016 updated by: Jill Halterman, University of Rochester
The overall goal of this project is to evaluate whether a multifaceted prompting intervention, administered in the urban primary care office setting, reduces morbidity among urban children with asthma. This study builds on our experience with a pilot study in two urban continuity clinics, in which we found that prompting clinicians about asthma severity and care guidelines at the time of an office visit resulted in improved preventive care delivery to inner-city children. This type of prompting program has the potential to substantially improve care for impoverished children with asthma, and we propose to establish: 1) whether these findings can be replicated in a similar study including a larger sample of urban children from different types of practices, and 2) whether the positive effects can be enhanced by more specific prompting directed towards both the provider and the caregiver and by providing practice-level supports and feedback. We hypothesize that children receiving a multifaceted prompting intervention (MPI) will experience less asthma-related morbidity (defined by symptom-free days at the 2-month follow-up) compared to children receiving usual care. Our secondary hypothesis is that children receiving the MPI will receive improved preventive asthma care (defined by guideline-based corrective actions taken at the index visit) compared to children receiving usual care.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

638

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • New York
      • Rochester, New York, United States, 14642
        • University of Rochester

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

2 years to 12 years (Child)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Physician-diagnosed asthma
  • Mild persistent or more severe asthma severity, or poor asthma control
  • Age >2 and <12 years.
  • Parent or caregiver must give permission to the study, and children >7 will must provide assent.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Inability to speak and understand English or Spanish
  • No access to a working phone for follow-up surveys
  • The child having other significant medical conditions,
  • Children in foster care or other situations in which consent cannot be obtained from a guardian.
  • Prior enrollment in the study.
  • Child will not be seen by a physician or nurse practitioner during their visit

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Single

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Standard Care
Parents of children in the standard care group will complete the baseline assessment, but no asthma prompt will be created for either the caregiver or provider, and no information regarding the interview will be shared with the provider. After the baseline assessment, the office visit will proceed according to usual care.
Experimental: Multifaceted Prompting Intervention
Behavioral: Multifaceted Prompting Intervention MPI

Practices assigned to the MPI group will receive a simple prompt given to the provider at the time of the visit with information regarding the child's symptoms, medication use, environmental exposures, and recommendations for guideline-based preventive care. Practices will receive brief interactive seminars, resource guides, access to free asthma education programs, and practice-level feedback regarding their performance on key outcome measures.

Caregivers will receive a simple prompt, community resources, and a blank asthma action plan form.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Symptom Free Days
Time Frame: 2 month follow-up assessment
The primary outcome is asthma morbidity measured by the number of symptom-free asthma days (SFD) reported over 2 weeks at the 2-month follow-up assessment.
2 month follow-up assessment

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Number of Children Who Received Guideline-based Asthma Care During the Intervention Visit.
Time Frame: 2 week follow-up, and medical record review
The number of children who received guideline-based asthma care (eg: inhaled steroid prescription, counseling for triggers, counseling for adherence) at the intervention visit based on parent interview at the 2-week follow-up and medical record review.
2 week follow-up, and medical record review

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

University of Rochester

Collaborators

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Jill S. Halterman, MD, MPH, University of Rochester

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start

October 1, 2008

Primary Completion (Actual)

September 1, 2014

Study Completion (Actual)

December 1, 2015

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

April 15, 2010

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 15, 2010

First Posted (Estimate)

April 16, 2010

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

February 8, 2016

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 15, 2016

Last Verified

January 1, 2016

More Information

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 25281
  • 1R01HL091835-01A1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

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