Promoting Asthma Wellness in Rural Communities

Augusta University700 enrolled

Overview

This is a research study that compares the effectiveness of a web-based program (known as Puff City) and another web-based program (of internet sites such as the American Lung Association, American Academy of Asthma, Allergy, and Immunology, etc) that targets five key asthma management issues among rural youth: 1. Improving adherence to asthma controller medication use; 2. Improving compliance of carrying a rescue inhaler at all times for use at the first sign of asthma symptoms; 3. Improving inhaler technique; 4. Smoking reduction or cessation in those who are smokers; and 5. Avoidance of second-hand smoke exposure.

A randomized control trial across three southeastern rural high schools comparing a web-based tailored intervention (known as Puff City) to web-based traditional control education sites.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

700

Conditions

Asthma

Interventions

Puff City GABEHAVIORAL

Puff City GA focuses on three areas of health behavior: 1) adherence to controller medications; 2) immediate availability of rescue medication; 3)smoking cessation/reduction.

General Asthma EducationBEHAVIORAL

Students will be directed to generic public websites on asthma and smoking that contain helpful information on general asthma management.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 14 YearsMax age: 21 YearsHealthy volunteers:

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Inclusion Criteria: * AA ethnicity * in 9th - 11th grade of selected rural schools * have an asthma diagnosis and/or asthma-like symptoms by screening eligible on the Lung Health Survey * have access to a telephone or mobile phone * being the parent of a student meeting the above criteria with whom the student resides the majority of the time. Exclusion Criteria: * Not meeting the above criteria.

Locations (1)

Georgia Health Sciences University

Augusta, Georgia, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Days of asthma symptoms; personal cigarette smoking and cessation; and days of school missed because of asthma, measured by self report

Time frame: baseline, end of treatment, 6 months, 12 months

Secondary Outcomes

Change in exhaled nitric oxide and active and passive smoke exposure, measured by salivary cotinine.

Time frame: baseline, end of treatment, 6 months, 12 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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