Efficacy of Educational Intervention for Parents of Children With Asthma

NCT ID: NCT01979224

Last Updated: 2013-11-08

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 42 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2012-02-29
• Study Completion Date: 2013-10-31

Brief Summary

Introduction. Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways, identified by airflow obstruction. Unfortunately only 2.4% of American asthmatics meet internationally recommended criteria for control. The lack of knowledge in parents of asthmatic children has been a direct result of minimum or no control at all, so the educational programs need to be assessed in terms of improvement of the control. Target. To determine whether an educational intervention aimed at parents of asthmatic children 4 to 11 years improved clinical control measured by Test Childhood Asthma Control. Material and Methods. Randomized controlled clinical trial in 42 patients randomly divided into two groups that were evaluated in the same time knowledge and control of asthma, a measurement was performed at baseline and monthly for nine months. The experimental group attended an educational intervention for individual reinforcements through this period, the control group was only monitored

Detailed Description

• Recruitment of patients that attended hospital's emergency gate due to asthma issues, and phone calls to regular physicians patients.
• Once recruited all parents of patients were asked to participate in the study where their children will be evaluated on an asthma control and asked informed consent
• The clinical history, spirometry and / or basal peak flow Diagnostic concordance
• With the collected data was performed a database clinical history, ACT score, FEV1 and PEF, results of each patient and personal data for future location, the base was used for the concordance of diagnosis.
• Once the sample that met the selection criteria were formed experimental and control groups at random using "R Project Statistical Computing" 2.12.2 version performed by the statistical
• The experimental group was invited to participate in educational sessions two hours at week in just one month and monthly individual reinforcements through the evaluation period.
• Educational sessions were based on the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), Guía Española para el Manejo del Asma (GEMA) And Concenso Mexicano de Asma.
• Those measurements were performed by an external partner or educators or the attending physician performed to avoid biased results.

The monthly ACT and peak flow of the attending physician were blinded

variables:

• educational intervention, with and without intervention
• asthma control: measured by infant ACT
• time: 0 to 9 months
• sex: female or male
• Age: 4 to 11 years

Conditions

Asthma

Keywords

educational intervention, Asthma control, asthma knowledge

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

treatment and routine counseling

Parents attend regular consultation and receive regular medical guidance

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

Educational intervention for parents

Intervention Type: OTHER

educational sessions once a week two hours for a month and later educational reinforcement and monitoring asthma control monthly for nine months

Interventions

Educational intervention for parents

educational sessions once a week two hours for a month and later educational reinforcement and monitoring asthma control monthly for nine months

Intervention Type: OTHER

Other Intervention Names

Educational intervention for parents of children with asthma

Eligibility Criteria

Exclusion Criteria

• Parents with children having other comorbidities that prevent or hinder proper control of asthma, such as Cerebral Palsy, (PCI) psychomotor retardation, psychiatric Sd. Down, congenital malformations, which alter the chest wall, obesity, nasal polyp.

Elimination criteria

• Parents who fail to attend 50% of the sessions given (since it does not allow parents to acquire sufficient knowledge to significantly improve the control of asthma as GEMA educational guidance)
• Patients and parents who decide not to continue in the project.
• Patients who develop pulmonary comorbidities over a month of evolution and lung tissue affecting significantly, as syncytial respiratory virus, pneumonia, tuberculosis, and asthma control difficulties.
• Patients who leave or do not take the prescribed treatment by physician for a month.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 4 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 11 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Hospital General de Soledad de Graciano Sánchez, SLP, MX

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosí

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Blanca Nohemí Zamora Mendoza

Efficacy of educational intervention for parents of children with asthma in 4-11 years and their impact on the control as measured by childern Asthma Control Test (ACT). Randomized Controlled Clinical

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Blanca ZM master

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí México

Other Identifiers

UASLP-001

Identifier Type: REGISTRY

Identifier Source: secondary_id

A-001

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id