Study and Development of Application Models of "Therapeutic Education to the Patient" (TEP) in Asthmatic Children

NCT ID: NCT02636920

Last Updated: 2020-12-19

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

50 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-03-01

Study Completion Date

2017-08-31

Brief Summary

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It is an interventional prospective study. The study will assess the intervention of the "Therapeutic Education to the Patient (TEP)" on the quality of life in asthmatic children.

The patients will be enrolled from the 1st of May 2016 to the 31st of December 2016 in the outpatient clinic of Pediatric Allergology \& Pulmonology (PAP) of Respiratory Disease Research Center (RDRC) within the Institute of Biomedicine and Molecular Immunology (IBIM) of the National Research Council (CNR) of Palermo (RDRC-IBIM CNR), Italy.

Detailed Description

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It is an interventional prospective study. The study will assess the intervention of the "Therapeutic Education to the Patient (TEP)" on the quality of life in asthmatic children.

The patients will be enrolled from the 1st of May 2016 to the 31st of December 2016 in the outpatient clinic of Pediatric Allergology \& Pulmonology (PAP) of Respiratory Disease Research Center (RDRC) within the Institute of Biomedicine and Molecular Immunology (IBIM) of the National Research Council (CNR) of Palermo (RDRC-IBIM CNR), Italy.

25 Case Patients will follow the Therapeutic Education to the Patient (TEP) and 25 Control Patients will follow the usual care program.

The following procedures will be performed:

* Pediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (PAQLQ);
* Children Asthma Control Test (C-ACT);
* Pediatric Caregiver Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (PCAQLQ);
* Familiar Empowerment Scale (FES);
* Functional respiratory tests: forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), forced expiratory flow between 25% and 75% (FEF 25-75), forced vital capacity (FVC) and Peak expiratory flow (PEF); in addition, FEV1 and PEF will be daily recorded through the SmartOne device (Medical International Research s.r.l.), a portable flow peak meter for smartphones;
* Evaluation of the presence of Cotinine and Nicotine from Hair and Urine analysis respectively;
* Evaluation of levels of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) through urine analysis.

Data collection about asthma control, quality of life and spirometry will be managed through DragONE, a downloadable APP for smartphones.

Conditions

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Asthma

Keywords

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Asthma Children

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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TEP-CASES

25 Case Patients will follow the Therapeutic Education to the Patient (TEP).

In addition the following procedures will be performed:

* Pediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (PAQLQ);
* Children Asthma Control Test (C-ACT);
* Pediatric Caregiver Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (PCAQLQ);
* Functional respiratory tests: forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), forced expiratory flow between 25% and 75% (FEF 25-75), forced vital capacity (FVC) and Peak expiratory flow (PEF)

Group Type OTHER

Therapeutic Education to the Patient (TEP)

Intervention Type OTHER

* Educational Diagnosis, asking what patient has, what he knows, what he is doing, what he would like to do.
* Therapeutic Contract, to define objectives to reach at the end of educational path, integrating new knowledges and replacing wrong cognitive-behavior models with new schemes.
* Educational Therapeutic Intervention, with individual or group methodologies (Role Playing, Brain Storming) and a disease diary in which patients could describe symptoms, therapies, behaviors and benefits.
* Assessing of the knowledges acquired by patients.

TEP-CONTROLS

25 Control Patients will follow the usual care program:

* The Pediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (PAQLQ);
* The Children Asthma Control Test (C-ACT);
* the Pediatric Caregiver Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (PCAQLQ);
* Functional respiratory tests: forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), forced expiratory flow between 25% and 75% (FEF 25-75), forced vital capacity (FVC) and Peak expiratory flow (PEF)

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Therapeutic Education to the Patient (TEP)

* Educational Diagnosis, asking what patient has, what he knows, what he is doing, what he would like to do.
* Therapeutic Contract, to define objectives to reach at the end of educational path, integrating new knowledges and replacing wrong cognitive-behavior models with new schemes.
* Educational Therapeutic Intervention, with individual or group methodologies (Role Playing, Brain Storming) and a disease diary in which patients could describe symptoms, therapies, behaviors and benefits.
* Assessing of the knowledges acquired by patients.

Intervention Type OTHER

Other Intervention Names

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TEP

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Diagnosis of asthma

Exclusion Criteria

* Acute respiratory infection signs
* Immunologic and metabolic systemic disease
* Major malformation of upper respiratory tract
* Active smokers patients
Minimum Eligible Age

6 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

11 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Stefania La Grutta, MD

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Stefania La Grutta, MD

Stefania La Grutta, MD. Senior Researcher. Coordinator of Pediatric Allergy and Asthma Research Group. Institute of Biomedicine and Molecular Immunology, IBIM, National Research Council of Palermo, Italy.

Responsibility Role SPONSOR_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Institute of Biomedicine and Molecular Immunology (IBIM), National Research Council

Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Site Status

Countries

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Italy

Other Identifiers

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8/2014-

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id