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Towards Digital Management of Paediatric Asthma
Sponsor: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Summary
This pilot study aims to explore whether a digital approach to managing childhood asthma using connected inhalers and video consultations triggered by alerts from these devices - could work as well as standard in-person care. The connected inhalers track when children use their daily prevention medication and their rescue medication for asthma symptoms. If a child misses several days of prevention medication or uses their rescue inhaler frequently, their doctor receives an alert and can schedule a video consultation to adjust their treatment. Fifty children aged 4-12 years with asthma will participate for 8 months, with half using this digital system and half receiving usual care. The study will measure whether this new approach is practical and acceptable to families and doctors, and will look at its effects on asthma control, quality of life, and healthcare use. The results will help design a larger study to fully test if this digital approach could improve asthma care for children.
Official title: Towards Digital Management of Pediatric Asthma:a Pilot Study
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
4 Years - 12 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
50
Start Date
2025-10
Completion Date
2026-10
Last Updated
2025-07-20
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Active telemonitoring using real-time data from digital inhalers.
Telemonitoring system relying on the use of 2 digital inhalers FindAir ONE for pMDI, one for the controller the other for the reliever treatment. Active telemonitoring using real-time data from digital inhalers. Investigators will be alerted by email if a child: 1. fails to take his or her controller treatment for 4 continuous days and/or 2. uses \> 4 doses of reliever treatment over 24 hours 3. uses \< 12 doses of reliever treatment over 3 months (indication to decrease the controller treatment) In these cases, investigators will be asked to schedule a teleconsultation within 2 working days with the family and to adapt treatments as needed. They may ask the family to use the portable spirometer and oximeter if necessary. No systematic consultation will be planned.
Standard
Standardized care + passive recording of asthma treatment use (controller and reliever treatments) using digital inhalers
Locations (1)
Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades AP-HP
Paris, France