This study will establish a multi-disciplinary home visitation team consisting of a medical provider and school teacher or staff member, and will evaluate whether a series of visits from this team will help decrease school absenteeism among children with asthma.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
11
The intervention will consist of a series of home visitations to chronically absent students with co-morbid asthma. These visits will consist of a home environment evaluation, medication adherence and knowledge assessment, distribution of home environmental allergen reduction items such as mattress and pillow encasements, as well as review and reinforcement of any asthma action plans or care plans provided by patient's primary care physicians or medical home.
Standard care will refer to the procedures carried out by the school district to address students with chronic absenteeism. This includes parent-teacher and parent-school administrator meetings and communications and may also include home visits carried out by classroom teachers or student support center staff.
University of California Davis
Sacramento, California, United States
Missed School Days
The number of school days missed over the course of an academic year
Time frame: One academic year
Healthcare Utilization
Number of emergency department or urgent care visits for asthma
Time frame: One academic year
Asthma Symptom Report
Patient and family self-report of number of days where asthma symptoms were experienced, collected monthly
Time frame: One academic year
Asthma Control Test
Numeric score from the Childhood Asthma Control Test, collected monthly
Time frame: One academic year
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