App aims to tame asthma in teens
NCT ID NCT03842033
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests a smartphone app designed to make asthma easier to manage for 370 teenagers and young adults. The app is a digital version of an asthma action plan, helping users track symptoms and follow treatment guidelines. The goal is to see if using the app improves asthma control and medication adherence over three months.
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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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370 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Mar 2019
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
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- Ages
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12 to 20 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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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: * Age ≥12 and \<21 years * Persistent asthma according to national guidelines criteria * Asthma Control Test (ACT) score ≤19 * Prescribed a preventive (controller) asthma medication in the past 6 months * Access to a smartphone compatible with the PEAKmAAP and NutriMap * Access to the internet * Able to read and speak English Exclusion Criteria: * Significant underlying respiratory disease other than asthma, such as cystic fibrosis * Significant co-morbid conditions, such as moderate to severe developmental delay that could interfere with the adolescent's ability to self-monitor asthma * Current smoker * Participation in the investigator's or other asthma clinical trials in the previous 6 months
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute
Little Rock, Arkansas, 72202, United States
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