New app aims to help hispanic kids breathe easier
NCT ID NCT05892302
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tested an app called Asma Guardián, designed to help Hispanic children with asthma. The app encourages families to see an asthma specialist, use controller medication, and improve the home environment. 37 children aged 5-12 took part, and the study compared app users to those receiving usual care.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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37 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Mar 2024
- Finished
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Dec 2025
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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5 to 12 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Provision of signed and dated informed consent forms. 2. Who has a child who is 5-12 years of age 3. Whose child meets criteria for current persistent asthma defined as either: 1. On a long-term controller medication for asthma, or 2. Meet NAEPP guideline requirements for persistent disease:)(35) * Asthma symptoms 3 or more days per week over the past 2 weeks OR * Nocturnal asthma symptoms at least 3 times in the past month 4. Whose child has had an asthma exacerbation, defined as an oral steroid burst, in the previous 12 months 5. Parent/Caregiver identifies as Mexican American or other Hispanic descent 6. Whose child has clinician diagnosed asthma 7. Access to necessary resources for participating in a technology-based intervention (i.e., computer, smart phone, internet access) 8. Whose child is not currently participating in another asthma study. The parent/caregiver is the primary study participant, but the child will be asked to complete some surveys at baseline and six months, so an assent will be obtained from the child. Exclusion Criteria: * An individual who meets any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation in this study: 1. Unwilling to provide consent for research activities 2. Cognitive inability to provide consent 3. Whose child has evidence of other chronic lung or significant cardiovascular disease 4. Whose child has a history of intubation for asthma
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas, 78712, United States
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