Project ASTHMA - Aligning With Schools To Help Manage Asthma and Decrease Health Inequities

Description

Children with asthma from communities that experience health inequities frequently do not receive guideline-based asthma care, and as a result, account for a disproportionate percentage of asthma exacerbations, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations. Project ASTHMA (Aligning with Schools To Help Manage Asthma) tests the effectiveness of school-based health centers as a delivery model to improve health outcomes by providing children with guideline-based asthma assessments and preventive medication management, directly observed therapy of their preventive medication to support adherence, and self-management support. If successful, this multicomponent intervention will represent a cost effective and sustainable model to reduce asthma morbidity in historically marginalized communities, and has the potential to impact communities throughout the United States where over 2,500 school-based health centers operate.

Conditions

Asthma in Children, Directly Observed Therapy

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

Children with asthma from communities that experience health inequities frequently do not receive guideline-based asthma care, and as a result, account for a disproportionate percentage of asthma exacerbations, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations. Project ASTHMA (Aligning with Schools To Help Manage Asthma) tests the effectiveness of school-based health centers as a delivery model to improve health outcomes by providing children with guideline-based asthma assessments and preventive medication management, directly observed therapy of their preventive medication to support adherence, and self-management support. If successful, this multicomponent intervention will represent a cost effective and sustainable model to reduce asthma morbidity in historically marginalized communities, and has the potential to impact communities throughout the United States where over 2,500 school-based health centers operate.

Project ASTHMA - Aligning With Schools To Help Manage Asthma and Decrease Health Inequities

Project ASTHMA - Aligning With Schools To Help Manage Asthma and Decrease Health Inequities

Condition
Asthma in Children
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Buffalo

University at Buffalo, Department of Pediatrics, Buffalo, New York, United States, 14203

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * uncontrolled asthma
  • * other chronic lung disease such as cystic fibrosis

Ages Eligible for Study

4 Years to 13 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

State University of New York at Buffalo,

Study Record Dates

2028-06