- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT02205723
Smartphone-facilitated Asthma Control (SNAPP)
Smartphone-facilitated Medication Notification for Asthma Control in Pediatric Patients (SNAPP) Pilot Study
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
The objective of this protocol is to pilot an innovative approach to medication adherence to determine if such an approach will improve inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) medication adherence, a critical gap in improving the health of children with asthma.
Acute asthma exacerbations occur yearly in almost 60% of children with asthma. They are the most frequent reason for childhood hospitalization and the most expensive component of pediatric asthma care in the U.S. Exacerbations impair quality of life and disproportionately affect African-American children, children with Medicaid insurance, and the poor. Up to 70% of exacerbations are preventable if guideline-recommended inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) medication adherence is achieved. However, ICS medication adherence in children with persistent asthma is dismal at only 11 - 18%. Amongst children with Medicaid insurance prescribed ICS, 63% discontinue the medication within 90 days. As a healthcare system, investigators have been unable to meaningfully improve ICS medication adherence in a cost-efficient way for patients with asthma, and particularly for the high-risk, highest-potential population of children with moderate or severe persistent asthma. These children suffer the greatest morbidity and mortality from asthma yet have highest-potential to benefit from improved ICS medication adherence. There is an urgent need for an efficacious adherence intervention for this population because, without it, these children will continue to experience impaired health and disproportionate morbidity.
The investigators' long-term objective is to identify and disseminate an intervention that will minimize the occurrence and severity of exacerbations in this population. The overall objective of this pilot study is to test the feasibility of Smartphone-facilitated medication Notification for Asthma Control in Pediatric Patients (SNAPP) using a wireless medication monitor (WMM) and smartphone application that provides parents reminders for administration of ICS medication, real-time feedback on preventive and controller medication adherence, and wireless upload of this data to a secure online database. The central hypothesis is that for children in this population, SNAPP will result in >=25% improved Asthma Control Test (ACT) scores in comparison with usual management. Secondary hypotheses are that the intervention will result in a >= 30% decrease in FeNO in comparison with usual care at 6 months and >=40% increase in ICS medication adherence at 6 months. The central hypothesis has been formulated on the basis of reports that parents of children with acute exacerbations continue to have insufficient knowledge of asthma self-management yet are motivated to do what is best for their child. SNAPP incorporates monitoring, reminders, and dynamic feedback through a smartphone that will improve ICS medication adherence and that will influence the child's future independence and chronic disease-management skills. Importantly, the investigators will use wireless medication monitors to accurately and objectively ascertain ICS medication adherence without patient effort. Parents are facile with and use wireless technology to organize their daily activities and for communicating. Incorporating this technology into health care and medication adherence is a logical next-step.
The investigators propose to test the hypotheses through the following Aim: To determine whether SNAPP meaningfully improves 6-month asthma control measured with the Asthma Control Test, airway inflammation measured using exhaled nitric oxide and ICS adherence compared with usual care, in an RCT of children with moderate or severe persistent asthma.
Study Type
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
-
-
Tennessee
-
Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37232
- Vanderbilt Children's Hospital
-
-
Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- TennCare Medicaid insurance, and an acute exacerbation (45% of our ED patients with acute asthma, section C.11.)
- Parent has a smartphone and wireless account that they agree to use for this study (if randomized to intervention group), anticipated residence in the Nashville Metropolitan Service Area for at least 12 months, willingness to participate in phone-based (wireless or landline) ACT-scoring monthly, and willingness to return at 3, 6 and 12 months for FeNO testing.
- The participant's PCP agrees that patient has moderate or severe persistent asthma and should be on ICS for at least the subsequent 12 months in accordance with NIH-NAEPP expert panel guidelines.87,88
Exclusion Criteria:
- Exclusion criteria include prior study enrollment, other medical condition contributing to respiratory distress (e.g., pneumonia, cystic fibrosis) or other diseases that may necessitate treatment with systemic corticosteroid (CCS; e.g., nephrotic syndrome).
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Prevention
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
---|---|
Active Comparator: Control
Control group
|
Asthma teaching
Other Names:
|
Experimental: Smartphone Asthma Control
|
Asthma teaching
Other Names:
Smartphone Asthma Control
Other Names:
|
What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
---|---|---|
Childhood asthma control test
Time Frame: 6 months
|
Measurement of change of C-ACT at 6 months.
|
6 months
|
Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
---|---|---|
Fractional excretion of exhaled nitric oxide
Time Frame: 6 months
|
Measurement of change of FeNO at 6 months.
|
6 months
|
Collaborators and Investigators
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Donald H Arnold, MD, MPH, Vanderbilt University
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Anticipated)
Primary Completion (Anticipated)
Study Completion (Anticipated)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Estimate)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Keywords
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- IRB 140934
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.
Clinical Trials on Childhood Asthma
-
National and Kapodistrian University of AthensNot yet recruitingChildhood Asthma | Environmental Exposure | Pollution; Exposure | Childhood
-
Ohio State UniversityAmerican Nurses Foundation; Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of... and other collaboratorsCompletedChildhood Asthma | Childhood Anxiety Disorder | Childhood DepressionUnited States
-
University of LouisvilleMeda PharmaceuticalsCompleted
-
University of North Carolina, GreensboroSigma Theta Tau InternationalActive, not recruitingChildhood Asthma | Childhood Anxiety | Childhood DepressionUnited States
-
Khyber Teaching HospitalRecruitingChildhood Asthma With Acute ExacerbationPakistan
-
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de ParisCompleted
-
Johns Hopkins All Children's HospitalCompleted
-
Montefiore Medical CenterNational Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)Active, not recruitingAsthma ChildhoodUnited States
-
Albert Einstein College of MedicineNational Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)Completed
-
Children's Hospital of Fudan UniversityWithdrawnChildhood Asthma
Clinical Trials on Asthma teaching in ER
-
University of MichiganNational Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)Completed
-
University of Texas at AustinNational Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)Completed
-
Hospital for Special Surgery, New YorkNational Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)Completed
-
Queen Mary University of LondonCompleted
-
Sydney Children's Hospitals NetworkCompleted
-
Assiut UniversityNot yet recruitingEvaluation of Cardiac Burden in Patients With Sever Bronchial Asthma
-
AstraZenecaCompleted
-
Cairo UniversityRecruiting
-
University of RochesterNational Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)RecruitingAsthma in ChildrenUnited States