Sleep Quality in High School Students With Asthma

Families for Steps 1 and 3 will be identified through schools, clinics, and non-profit agencies that focus on asthma (e.g., American Lung Association). School principals, clinic directors, administrators and/or clinicians will distribute a flyer to families advertising the study, and families will be asked to call the researchers. In Rhode Island, families will also be recruited from their lab's database of past referrals and past research participants. Interested families will be screened for study eligibility by trained study staff.

Each site will recruit two high school teachers for Step 2 from teachers known to the investigative team (convenient sample)

ADOLESCENT-CAREGIVER DYADS (20 adolescents with persistent asthma and poor sleep, and their caregivers - 10 in Step 1 and 10 in Step 3)

Inclusion Criteria:

1. a prior asthma diagnosis in the prior 12 months;
2. use of prescribed asthma medications;
3. persistent asthma (defined as (i) daytime symptoms 3+ days a week, (ii) night awakenings 3+ nights per month, (iii) 2+ Emergency Department visits or (iv) 1+ hospitalization for asthma); and
4. sleep duration < 8 hours

Exclusion Criteria:

1. report of prior diagnosis of a sleep disorder, such as sleep disordered breathing, restless leg syndrome, periodic limb movement syndrome;
2. A Pediatric Sleep Questionnaire (PSQ) score of 0.33 or more, a well-validated measure of sleep disordered breathing risk;
3. active immunotherapy;
4. additional pulmonary disease; and
5. significant developmental delay and/or severe psychiatric or medical conditions that preclude completion of study procedures or confound analyses.

SCHOOL TEACHERS (4 high school teachers - 2 from New York and 2 from Rhode Island in Step 2)

Inclusion Criteria:

- Teach at the high school level.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Unwilling to participate in the study.