Project ASTHMA - Aligning With Schools To Help Manage Asthma and Decrease Health Inequities
State University of New York at Buffalo
Summary
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.
Eligibility
- Age range
- 4–13 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: * uncontrolled asthma Exclusion Criteria: * other chronic lung disease such as cystic fibrosis
Interventions
- OtherAPP assessment and management of asthma
APPs will be trained to follow NIH guidelines for assessment and management of asthma, and to apply their knowledge to the care of the students. Students will also receive DOT of the morning dose of their controller medication.
Location
- University at Buffalo, Department of PediatricsBuffalo, New York