Personalised outcomes in children with recurrent wheeze version 1
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Defining personalised outcomes in pre-school children with recurrent wheeze
IRAS ID
226984
Contact name
Mando Watson
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
226984, IRAS ref
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 11 months, 29 days
Research summary
This is a project that aims to offer significant help to the families of pre-school children with recurrent wheeze in the UK. A significant number of toddlers in the UK present with wheezing disorders requiring frequent admissions to the hospital emergency department. This creates a significant amount of stress for both parents and children. Many parents struggle with the time commitments this can pose and the stress involved.
Currently, pharmacological treatment for recurrent wheeze has not been shown to have an impact on the number of episodes a child experiences, or on the risk for developing asthma in the future. Treatment therefore focuses on the relief of symptoms, such as wheeze and cough as a means to improve these children's quality of life.
However, we are not aware to what extent patients and their carers may be troubled by other aspects of this condition,such as sleep disturbance, number of missed nursery days or on the number of family holidays cancellations.
In this study we aim to assess the effect of the use of a questionnaire answering clinical and quality of life outcomes for families of preschool children with recurrent wheeze on the number of avoidable emergency department admissions. These outcomes have been established that are of primary importance to patients and their carers through a qualitative research study that has been accepted for publication.
Based on the outcomes of this analysis, we aim to suggest the use of this tool (questionnaire) in the everyday management of these children with the hope to alleviate the healthcare system from avoidable admissions to hospitals and help families get a better quality of life.REC name
South Central - Hampshire B Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
19/SC/0144
Date of REC Opinion
11 Mar 2019
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion