Academic Achievement in Children With Asthma

NCT02228499 | Completed Results

• 1 other identifier: 00005030
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 66
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Background: Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood with a prevalence that is 1.6 times greater in African American children than in Non-Hispanic White children.1 Nationally, 700,000 children are seen for asthma in Emergency Departments every year, 1% of which are seen at Children's National Health System in Washington, District of Columbia. School performance and school attendance has not been well studied in urban children with asthma, especially at the middle school level. Objective: Our purpose is to test the hypothesis that middle school children with asthma have worse school performance than middle school children without asthma in Washington DC and Prince George's county schools. Methods: The investigators will conduct a cross-sectional observational study of middle-school (grades 6-8 in the 2013-2014 school year) aged children with and without asthma recruited from the Emergency Departments and the IMPACT DC asthma clinic at CN. The investigators will collect demographic information, asthma severity information (for cases), and request that parents mail report cards and standardized test scores directly to the investigators. The investigators will use multivariable linear and logistic regression to determine if the presence of asthma is associated with school performance.

Conditions

Asthma

Keywords

asthma; academics; GPA; attendance

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• GPA

  To determine the association between asthma and school performance by comparing grade point averages (GPA) in school aged children with and without asthma. We will enroll 200 children in grades 3-8 with asthma (cases) from the ED/IMPACT DC and compare them with a group of 200 children in grades 3-8 without asthma (controls) recruited from the ED. Report cards will be collected between June 2014 and November 1, 2014 or until 200 cases and 200 controls have been recruited, and GPAs will be compared. We expect children with asthma will have lower GPAs . GPAs are unweighted 0-4 scale.

  single time point

Study Arms (2)

Asthma

children with asthma who were in middle school for the 2013-2014 school year will take surveys on health and quality of life

Other: Survey

Controls

Children with no history of asthma who were in middle school for the 2013-2014 school year will take surveys on health and quality of life

Other: Survey

Interventions

Survey OTHER

We will be administering surveys about health, quality of life, and asking for final report cards for the 2013-2014 school year for each group.

Asthma; Controls

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 11 Years - 14 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

We are proposing a cross-sectional case-control observational study of middle school (grades 6-8) children to compare academic achievement and school attendance between children with and without asthma. 200 children with asthma (cases) will be recruited from the IMPACT DC clinic and/or ED and 200 children without asthma (controls) will be recruited from the ED.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Shilpa Patel: lead

Study Sites (1)

Children's National Health Systems

Washington D.C., District of Columbia, 20010, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Asthma

Interventions

Surveys and Questionnaires

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

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

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Data Collection; Epidemiologic Methods; Investigative Techniques; Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms; Quality of Health Care; Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Public Health; Environment and Public Health

Limitations and Caveats

Data for this study was analyzed used a mixed methods approach. The quality of life scores were examined quantitatively and the report card data was analyzed qualitatively. Not all families mailed report cards to the IMPACT DC clinic.

Results Point of Contact

• Title: Dr. Seema Agrawal
• Organization: The George Washington University

seema300@yahoo.com

202 699 1648

Study Officials

• Shilpa Patel, MD

  Children's National Research Institute

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Publication Agreements

• PI is Sponsor Employee: No
• Restrictive Agreement: No

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: CASE CONTROL
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Target Duration: 5 Weeks
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: MD

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 26, 2014
• First Posted: August 29, 2014
• Study Start: December 15, 2016
• Primary Completion: March 31, 2017
• Study Completion: May 1, 2017
• Last Updated: May 7, 2019
• Results First Posted: May 7, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-02

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)