N/A
N=66
Academic Achievement in Children With Asthma
Asthma
Bottom Line
View on ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02228499 ↗Enrolled (actual)
66
Serious AEs
0.0%
Results posted
May 2019
Primary outcome: Primary: GPA — 2.75; 2.61; 3.25; 2.50 GPA(unweighted)
Study Design & Population
- Study type
- Observational
- Phase
- N/A
- Interventions
- Survey (Other)
- Age
- Pediatric · 11+ yrs
- Sex
- All
- Sponsor
- Shilpa Patel
- Primary completion
- Mar 2017
Outcome Measures
| Outcome | Result | p-value |
|---|---|---|
| PRIMARY GPA |
2.75; 2.61; 3.25; 2.50 | — |
Summary
Background: Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood with a prevalence that is 1.6 times greater in African American children than in Non-Hispanic White children.1 Nationally, 700,000 children are seen for asthma in Emergency Departments every year, 1% of which are seen at Children's National Health System in Washington, District of Columbia. School performance and school attendance has not been well studied in urban children with asthma, especially at the middle school level.
Objective: Our purpose is to test the hypothesis that middle school children with asthma have worse school performance than middle school children without asthma in Washington DC and Prince George's county schools.
Methods: The investigators will conduct a cross-sectional observational study of middle-school (grades 6-8 in the 2013-2014 school year) aged children with and without asthma recruited from the Emergency Departments and the IMPACT DC asthma clinic at CN. The investigators will collect demographic information, asthma severity information (for cases), and request that parents mail report cards and standardized test scores directly to the investigators. The investigators will use multivariable linear and logistic regression to determine if the presence of asthma is associated with school performance.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- Inclusion criteria for cases include asthma diagnosed by a clinician for greater than 1 year with a history of exacerbation requiring systemic corticosteroids within the past 2 years. Controls will have no history of asthma. All children, cases and controls, must (1) be in grade level 6-8 in the 2013-2014 school year, attend public school in Washington, DC (DCPS) or Prince George's County Public Schools (PGCPS), and reside in their school district;(2) be accompanied by their parent or legal guardian.
Exclusion Criteria: Exclusion criteria for cases and controls will be (1) presence of a chronic medical condition other than asthma; (2) triage category 1 or 2 in the emergency department; and (3) a family that does not speak English or Spanish
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Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT02228499). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication.