Promoting Asthma Wellness in Rural Communities

NCT01170676 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: R01HL092412
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 700
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

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. 1.Improving adherence to asthma controller medication use;
2. 2.Improving compliance of carrying a rescue inhaler at all times for use at the first sign of asthma symptoms;
3. 3.Improving inhaler technique;
4. 4.Smoking reduction or cessation in those who are smokers; and
5. 5.Avoidance of second-hand smoke exposure.

Conditions

Asthma

Keywords

asthma; smoking; teens

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

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

  baseline, end of treatment, 6 months, 12 months

Secondary Outcomes (1)

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

  baseline, end of treatment, 6 months, 12 months

Study Arms (2)

Puff City GA

EXPERIMENTAL

Puff City is an NHLBI-funded (C. Joseph, PI; Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI), web-based intervention that targets three key asthma management issues in youth: 1) smoking reduction or cessation in those who are smokers, 2) improving adherence to asthma controller medication use, and 3) improving compliance of carrying a rescue inhaler at all times for use at the first sign of asthma symptoms. Puff City Ga. is a replication study in the rural southeastern United States that adds biological assessments in addition to self-report data.

Behavioral: Puff City GA

General Asthma Education

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

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

Behavioral: General Asthma Education

Interventions

Puff City GA BEHAVIORAL

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.

Also known as: Behavioral Puff City Ga.

Puff City GA

General Asthma Education BEHAVIORAL

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

General Asthma Education

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 14 Years - 21 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• 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.

You may not qualify if:

• Not meeting the above criteria.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Augusta University: lead
• Henry Ford Health System: collaborator
• University of Michigan: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Georgia Health Sciences University

Augusta, Georgia, 30912, United States

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Jordan DM, Bush JS, Ownby DR, Waller JL, Tingen MS. The impact of traditional literacy and education on health literacy in adolescents with asthma. J Asthma. 2019 Aug;56(8):882-890. doi: 10.1080/02770903.2018.1494191. Epub 2018 Sep 5.

  PMID: 29984589 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Asthma; Smoking

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Bronchial Diseases; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Lung Diseases, Obstructive; Lung Diseases; Respiratory Hypersensitivity; Hypersensitivity, Immediate; Hypersensitivity; Immune System Diseases; Behavior

Study Officials

• Martha S Tingen, PhD

  Augusta University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Dennis R Ownby, MD

  Augusta University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 12, 2010
• First Posted: July 27, 2010
• Study Start: August 1, 2009
• Primary Completion: May 1, 2012
• Study Completion: May 1, 2014
• Last Updated: February 2, 2015

Record last verified: 2015-01

Locations

US (1)