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Sponsors and Collaborators: |
Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City US Department of Housing and Urban Development The healthy Homes Network of Kansas City, Missouri |
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Information provided by: | Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00144443 |
Objective: Our overall objective is to test the hypothesis that the health of children with chronic respiratory symptoms or chronic exposures to environmental hazards can be improved through a combination of standard home maintenance interventions and a set of interim controls and targeted repair interventions.
I. Background:
The Bi-State Kansas City Enhanced Enterprise Community (KCEEC) is one of pervasive poverty, unemployment and general distress. This same area is also an area of poor environmental health with a disproportionate number of children with lead poisoning, asthma, and home injuries.
In May 2001, the Metropolitan (Kansas City) Health Council released a report urging the implementation of strategies to address this growing concern. They stated, “Environmental assessments and interventions in homes, schools, and workplaces are needed to promote indoor air quality and thereby help prevent asthma and asthma flare-ups,” in combination with the need for, “trained community-based peer educators needed to work with families/communities in areas of high asthma incidence,”. The need for major rehabilitation is echoed in the 1999 Consolidated Plan, as well as by most community development and housing officials.
The KC CERT project responds to these concerns by demonstrating low-cost, replicable intervention strategies that can have an impact on the health and safety of children and their families. By providing training and employment opportunities to residents in high-risk areas to assess, prevent and remediate environmental hazards, this project promotes sustained systematic change within the KCEEC.
Condition | Intervention |
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Asthma Rhinitis Allergy |
Behavioral: Basic home repair Behavioral: Asthma Trigger Education |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Educational/Counseling/Training, Non-Randomized, Open Label, Uncontrolled, Single Group Assignment, Safety/Efficacy Study |
Official Title: | Kansas City Community Environmental Remediation And Training (KC CERT) |
Estimated Enrollment: | 200 |
Study Start Date: | March 2003 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | May 2005 |
Ages Eligible for Study: | 2 Years to 17 Years |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
Participants that qualify for the study will have one of the following health conditions:
To qualify for the intervention phase of the study done by HHN,
Exclusion Criteria:
United States, Missouri | |
Children's Mercy Hospital | |
Kansas City, Missouri, United States, 64108 |
Principal Investigator: | Charles S Barnes, Ph.D. | Children's Mercy Hospital |
Study ID Numbers: | RG00002078, GL01.3714 |
Study First Received: | September 2, 2005 |
Last Updated: | December 8, 2005 |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00144443 |
Health Authority: | United States: Institutional Review Board |
Aerobiology Asthma Indoor Fungi Allergen Home Remediation |
Lung Diseases, Obstructive Hypersensitivity Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases Respiratory Tract Infections Respiratory Tract Diseases |
Lung Diseases Hypersensitivity, Immediate Asthma Rhinitis Respiratory Hypersensitivity |
Immune System Diseases Bronchial Diseases Nose Diseases |