TV-Based Self-Management Platform for Children with Asthma

描述（由申请人提供）：哮喘是儿童最常见的慢性疾病，在美国几乎每十个儿童中就有一个受到影响。哮喘的负担不成比例地福尔斯在来自低收入城市家庭的少数民族儿童身上。他们有更高的死亡率从哮喘和花费更多的时间在急诊室和医院由于他们的疾病比其他人。重要的是找到新的方法来帮助这些儿童过上更健康的生活。这样做的一个方法是为他们提供更好的手段来管理他们的疾病以外的医生的办公室。 该项目的长期目标是将BL Healthcare，Inc.开发的技术平台推向市场。可以给这些孩子一个自我管理哮喘的工具。该平台在一台标准电视上集成了三项功能：自动报告峰值流量计读数、有关哮喘患者更健康生活的多媒体内容，以及自动交互式患者支持功能。该平台的设计是为了方便儿童使用，只需一个简单的遥控器，并能够提供一个互动的，媒体丰富的学习环境，而不需要一台PC。下一代宽带技术使这种信息丰富的方法能够以成本效益高的方式提供。 在该项目中，研究小组将开发一套软件，该软件集成了峰值流量读数的无线监测、交互式多媒体患者教育内容和自动化患者支持功能，这些功能与已经开发的电信设备一起工作，以便在电视机上创建一个“哮喘管理门户”，该门户可以通过简单的遥控器进行导航。该平台将在波士顿的24名儿童中进行为期90天的测试，以评估他们对其可用性和有用性的看法。这些儿童对哮喘的理解以及如何管理哮喘的变化也将与对照组进行比较，以了解这种方法是否有希望帮助儿童管理哮喘。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood, affecting almost one out of every ten children in the United States. The burden of asthma falls disproportionately on minority children from lower income urban families. They have much higher death rates from asthma and spend much more time in the emergency room and hospital as a result of their disease than others. It is important to find new approaches to help these children to live healthier lives. One way to do so is to provide better means for them to manage their disease outside of doctor's offices. The long-term objective of this project is to bring to market a technology platform developed by BL Healthcare, Inc. that can give these children a tool for self-management of asthma. This platform integrates three functions-automatic reporting of their peak flow meter readings, multimedia content about living healthier lives with asthma, and automated, interactive patient support functions-on a standard television. The platform is designed to be easy for children to use with just a simple remote control and capable of providing an interactive, media-rich learning environment without the need for a PC. Next-generation, broadband-based technology enables this information-rich approach to be provided in a highly cost-effective manner. In this project, the research team will develop a set of software that integrate wireless monitoring of peak flow readings, interactive multimedia patient education content, and automated patient support functions that works with an already-developed telecommunications device in order create an "asthma management portal" on the television set that is navigable with a simple remote control. This platform will be tested in 24 children from Boston over a 90-day period to evaluate their perception of its usability and usefulness. Changes in the understanding of these children about their asthma and how to manage it will also be compared to a control group to see if this approach has promise in helping children manage their asthma.