RECRUITING

Y of Central Maryland Head Start Asthma Implementation

Study Overview

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Description

Despite a strong evidence-base for the efficacy of multilevel programs in reducing asthma symptoms among low-income preschool minority children, gaps remain in our understanding of how to best translate and scale up these efficacious interventions into sustainable programs that reduce known asthma health disparities. Head Start (HS) serves over one million low income children in the US each year by focusing on early learning, physical health, and family engagement. HS is committed to implementing evidence based programs to promote overall child well-being, and is focused on addressing asthma symptoms due to the deleterious impact on school absences and child development. We have demonstrated the effectiveness of a multi-level staff and family education program (ABC Asthma) that significantly reduced asthma symptoms and courses of oral corticosteroids. However, these interventions are not successfully integrated within community organizations for long-term sustainability. It is unknown how to best scale up and implement these evidence based asthma interventions into low resource community organizations that serve children at risk. Implementation strategies are frequently developed atheoretically and may not be tailored to the setting. The overall purpose of this project is to inform best practices of implementation of an asthma education program by 1) systematically evaluating the use of intervention mapping to develop a tailored implementation strategy in partnership with Head Start stakeholders, 2) examining both staff and organizational level determinants associated with implementation of ABC Asthma, and 3) evaluating the success of tailored implementation strategies on implementation outcomes and school absences and other health outcomes. The YMCA of Central Maryland have enthusiastically agreed to implement the Maryland ABC HS Asthma within 40 sites in four communities: Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Anne Arundel County, and Prince George's County.

Official Title

Implementation of a Multilevel Program to Reduce Asthma Symptoms in Urban Preschoolers

Quick Facts

Study Start:2020-08-01
Study Completion:2025-07-31
Study Type:Not specified
Phase:Not Applicable
Enrollment:Not specified
Status:RECRUITING

Study ID

NCT05004714

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Ages Eligible for Study:18 Years
Sexes Eligible for Study:ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:Not specified
Standard Ages:ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Inclusion CriteriaExclusion Criteria
  1. * Aged 18 or older
  2. * Head Start Staff member or caregiver of child currently enrolled in Head Start with asthma
  3. * Cognitive ability to provide consent
  4. * Willing to be audio recorded
  1. Pregnancy or breastfeeding
  2. Severe psychiatric disorders
  3. Active substance abuse
  4. Unstable medical conditions
  5. Inability to comply with study requirements

Contacts and Locations

Study Contact

Michelle Eakin, PhD
CONTACT
410-550-0487
meakin1@jhmi.edu

Principal Investigator

Michelle Eakin, PhD
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
JHU

Study Locations (Sites)

Easter Seals Head Start Prince George's County
District Heights, Maryland, 20747
United States
Y of Central Maryland Head Start
Nottingham, Maryland, 21236
United States

Collaborators and Investigators

Sponsor: Johns Hopkins University

  • Michelle Eakin, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, JHU

Study Record Dates

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Study Registration Dates

Study Start Date2020-08-01
Study Completion Date2025-07-31

Study Record Updates

Study Start Date2020-08-01
Study Completion Date2025-07-31

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

  • Asthma in Children
  • Implementation
  • Preschool Children