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Project ASTHMA – Aligning with Schools To Help Manage Asthma and Improve Outcomes

Award Number: R01MD018384
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/24/2023
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 04/30/2028

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Project ASTHMA – Aligning with Schools To Help Manage Asthma and Improve Outcomes - PROJECT SUMMARY Multicomponent interventions delivered in school-based health centers (SBHCs) have the potential to decrease asthma morbidity in children from poor neighborhoods. Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children. Children from poor neighborhoods account for a relatively greater percentage of asthma exacerbations, emergency department (ED) visits, and hospitalizations. These children often do not receive guideline-based asthma care, and adherence to daily preventive asthma medication is poor. Traditional health service delivery models where care is received in physicians’ offices have limited success in improving asthma outcomes in children from poor neighborhoods. As a result, these children often receive crisis-driven care rather than prevention-driven care. SBHCs can improve outcomes for children living in poor neighborhoods. SBHCs are staffed by advanced practice providers (APPs) who can assess and manage diseases. There are therefore minimal costs to integrating an asthma management program within this existing health care delivery model. Project ASTHMA (Aligning with Schools To Help Manage Asthma) is a prospective, stepped wedge cluster randomized trial based on a successful pilot study, that aims to assess the effectiveness of SBHCs as a cost effective health care delivery model to reduce asthma symptoms, exacerbations, ED visits, and hospitalizations in children with uncontrolled asthma who live in poor neighborhoods. The intervention will take place in SBHCs located in 10 Buffalo Public Schools. The APPs at the SBHCs randomized to Project ASTHMA that year will be trained and supported to deliver guideline-based chronic asthma care. Students enrolled in Project ASTHMA will receive asthma assessments, spirometry, and preventive medication management from the APPs, directly observed therapy of their preventive asthma medication from school nurses to support adherence, and self- management support to improve adherence to home doses of asthma medication. Students enrolled at the SBHCs randomized to the enhanced usual care group who will receive spirometry by the research team and then be referred to their primary care provider for assessment and medication management. SBHCs are a financially and clinically sustainable health care delivery model, and have the potential to substantially decrease asthma morbidity. If disseminated, Project ASTHMA has the potential to improve the health of children in schools throughout the country. These improvements are likely to be cost-effective because over 2,500 SBHCs already exist in hundreds of cities and towns in the United States.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $645,052 )
2025	2025	THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK	520 LEE ENTRANCE STE 211	AMHERST	NY	14228	ERIE	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	3	7/16/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$645,052
2025	2024	THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK	520 LEE ENTRANCE STE 211	AMHERST	NY	14228	ERIE	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	2	7/14/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $645,052

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $636,254 )
2024	2024	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	520 LEE ENTRANCE STE 211	AMHERST	NY	14228	ERIE	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	002	2	4/22/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$590,339
2024	2024	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	520 LEE ENTRANCE STE 211	AMHERST	NY	14228	ERIE	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	003	2	5/28/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$45,915
2024	2023	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	520 LEE ENTRANCE STE 211	AMHERST	NY	14228	ERIE	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	1	2/6/2024	NEW	$0
2024	2023	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	520 LEE ENTRANCE STE 211	AMHERST	NY	14228	ERIE	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	1	10/10/2023	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $636,254

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $684,704 )
2023	2023	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	520 LEE ENTRANCE STE 211	AMHERST	NY	14228	ERIE	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	1	9/24/2023	NEW	$684,704
2023	2023	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	520 LEE ENTRANCE STE 211	AMHERST	NY	14228	ERIE	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	1	9/26/2023	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $684,704

Grand Total All Awards = $1,966,010

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Project ASTHMA – Aligning with Schools To Help Manage Asthma and Improve Outcomes

Award Number: R01MD018384

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/24/2023

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 04/30/2028

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