NCT00958932

Brief Summary

The primary aim of this project is to conduct a randomized practical clinical trial within a large health maintenance organization to test a telephone intervention designed to improve adherence to daily asthma medications and thereby improve asthma outcomes. The investigators hypothesize that adherence with inhaled corticosteroid medications in the TEAM intervention group will be greater than in the usual care group.

Trial Health

87
On Track

Trial Health Score

Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach

Enrollment
1,187

participants targeted

Target at P75+ for not_applicable asthma

Timeline
Completed

Started Sep 2009

Longer than P75 for not_applicable asthma

Geographic Reach
1 country

1 active site

Status
completed

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Study Timeline

Key milestones and dates

First Submitted

Initial submission to the registry

August 13, 2009

Completed
1 day until next milestone

First Posted

Study publicly available on registry

August 14, 2009

Completed
18 days until next milestone

Study Start

First participant enrolled

September 1, 2009

Completed
3.7 years until next milestone

Primary Completion

Last participant's last visit for primary outcome

May 1, 2013

Completed
Same day until next milestone

Study Completion

Last participant's last visit for all outcomes

May 1, 2013

Completed
10.9 years until next milestone

Results Posted

Study results publicly available

April 4, 2024

Completed
Last Updated

April 4, 2024

Status Verified

March 1, 2024

Enrollment Period

3.7 years

First QC Date

August 13, 2009

Results QC Date

September 23, 2014

Last Update Submit

March 29, 2024

Conditions

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

  • Medication Adherence

    The primary outcome of this study, adherence, was expressed as a mean proportion of days covered (PDC) over 24 months. The PDC was calculated as the total number of ICS days supplied divided by the period for which the medication was prescribed. Calculation of the PDC was adjusted to account for the supply that would extend beyond the end of the study period. Comparisons were adjusted for baseline PDC, which was calculated as the ratio of number of days a patient had possession of medication divided by the number of days enrolled 1 year prior to randomization.

    12 months

Secondary Outcomes (1)

  • Emergency Care Visits Per Person-Year

    Per one year of person-time

Study Arms (2)

Speech recognition (TEAM intervention)

EXPERIMENTAL

Parents randomized to the intervention received speech recognition phone calls if their child's medication refill was overdue.

Behavioral: Speech recognition

Control

NO INTERVENTION

Usual care

Interventions

The TEAM intervention is a program to increase communication with families, provide feedback to families about their refill adherence, assess asthma symptoms, deliver health communication messages, encourage parents to ask questions of asthma care managers, and facilitate refilling ICS prescription. Speech recognition calls will be tailored to specific situations including new or re-issued ICS prescriptions, failure to fill an initial prescription, failure to refill, or failure to refill following an ED visit, hospitalization, or oral steroid burst resulting from an asthma exacerbation.

Also known as: usual care
Speech recognition (TEAM intervention)

Eligibility Criteria

Age3 Years - 12 Years
Sexall
Healthy VolunteersNo
Age GroupsChild (0-17)

You may qualify if:

  • year old children with asthma requiring daily corticosteroid

You may not qualify if:

  • sibling already in study
  • physician excludes from participation
  • non English Speaking

Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Sites (1)

National Jewish Health

Denver, Colorado, 80206, United States

Location

Related Publications (2)

  • Bender BG, Cvietusa PJ, Goodrich GK, Lowe R, Nuanes HA, Rand C, Shetterly S, Tacinas C, Vollmer WM, Wagner N, Wamboldt FS, Xu S, Magid DJ. Pragmatic trial of health care technologies to improve adherence to pediatric asthma treatment: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA Pediatr. 2015 Apr;169(4):317-23. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2014.3280.

    PMID: 25664620BACKGROUND
  • Bender BG, Cvietusa PJ, Goodrich GK, King DK, Shoup JA. Adapting adaptive design methods to accelerate adoption of a digital asthma management intervention. Transl Behav Med. 2023 Apr 3;13(3):149-155. doi: 10.1093/tbm/ibac093.

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Asthma

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Bronchial DiseasesRespiratory Tract DiseasesLung Diseases, ObstructiveLung DiseasesRespiratory HypersensitivityHypersensitivity, ImmediateHypersensitivityImmune System Diseases

Limitations and Caveats

A potential limitation to this study is that the most poorly adherent patients may have been excluded from the study since eligible patients were required to have made at least 1 Inhaled Corticosteroid fill in the 6 months prior to enrollment. An additional limitation may be non-applicability of the intervention to practices without an Electronic Health Record (EHR) or with an EHR that is different from the one used at Kaiser Permanente Colorado (KPCO).

Results Point of Contact

Title
Dr. Bruce Bender
Organization
National Jewish Health

Study Officials

  • Bruce G Bender, PhD

    National Jewish Health

    PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Publication Agreements

PI is Sponsor Employee
Yes
Restrictive Agreement
No

Study Design

Study Type
interventional
Phase
not applicable
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Who Masked
INVESTIGATOR
Purpose
TREATMENT
Intervention Model
PARALLEL
Sponsor Type
OTHER
Responsible Party
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
PI Title
Professor of Pediatrics

Study Record Dates

First Submitted

August 13, 2009

First Posted

August 14, 2009

Study Start

September 1, 2009

Primary Completion

May 1, 2013

Study Completion

May 1, 2013

Last Updated

April 4, 2024

Results First Posted

April 4, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-03

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