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NCT05013788Completed

Using Social Media to Decrease Healthcare Utilization for Pediatric Asthma

Using Social Media to Decrease Healthcare Utilization for Pediatric Asthma: a Pilot Randomized Control Trial

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 11 Feb 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The purpose of this study is to evaluate if social media enhanced education (SME) will reduce total number of treatment days defined as summation of days of subsequent hospital admission, emergency room visits, and clinic visits, reduce missed school days, reduce total costs from a health system perspective, have increased effect with increased social media engagement, have increased effect in participants with both caregiver and patient (combined) with social media accounts, compared to participants where only the patient or only the caregiver uses social media (single),have increased patient satisfaction in the asthma education received and to obtain the experience and data needed to refine SME to be able to expand this platform for other chronic medical conditions with high healthcare utilization including pediatric diabetes, epilepsy, and sickle cell disease in children with asthma.

Status (registry)
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
200 (actual)
First submitted
13 Aug 2021
Start date
1 Oct 2021
Primary completion date
15 Sept 2024
Lead sponsor
The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Diseases
Asthma
NCT number
NCT05013788

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional
  • Participants enrolled: 200
  • From 1 Oct 2021 to the primary completion date, 15 Sept 2024
  • 1 site in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

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Other illness

  • other chronic conditions besides asthma that may necessitate frequent health care utilization. i.e. children with complex chronic conditions, sickle cell, seizures, diabetes.

Who the study is looking for

  • hospitalized to Children's Memorial Hermann admitted for asthma exacerbation
  • patient and/or primary caregiver must have internet access on cellular phones or at home and use a social media account (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and/or Snapchat)

Age in the registry: 3 years to 17 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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HoustonUnited StatesUnknown status

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