Promoting Asthma Wellness in Rural Communities
| Status: | Completed |
|---|---|
| Conditions: | Asthma |
| Therapuetic Areas: | Pulmonary / Respiratory Diseases |
| Healthy: | No |
| Age Range: | Any |
| Updated: | 11/18/2012 |
| Start Date: | August 2009 |
| End Date: | May 2012 |
| Contact: | Martha S Tingen, PhD |
| Email: | mtingen@georgiahealth.edu |
| Phone: | 706-721-0471 |
This is a research study that compares the effectiveness of a web-based program (known as
Puff City) and another web-based program (of internet sites such as the American Lung
Association, American Academy of Asthma, Allergy, and Immunology, etc) that targets five key
asthma management issues among rural youth:
1. Improving adherence to asthma controller medication use;
2. Improving compliance of carrying a rescue inhaler at all times for use at the first
sign of asthma symptoms;
3. Improving inhaler technique;
4. Smoking reduction or cessation in those who are smokers; and
5. Avoidance of second-hand smoke exposure.
A randomized control trial across three southeastern rural high schools comparing a
web-based tailored intervention (known as Puff City) to web-based traditional control
education sites.
Inclusion Criteria:
- AA ethnicity
- in 9th - 11th grade of selected rural schools
- have an asthma diagnosis and/or asthma-like symptoms by screening eligible on the
Lung Health Survey
- have access to a telephone or mobile phone
- being the parent of a student meeting the above criteria with whom the student
resides the majority of the time.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Not meeting the above criteria.
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