The Community United to Challenge Asthma

NCT01065883 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2012-08-15

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Summary

This study compares an asthma self-management intervention, delivered to the family and tailored to their needs and cultural beliefs, to standard asthma education on two risk factors for asthma exacerbations in high-risk Puerto Rican children in high school. The self-management intervention will be a series of home visits provided by Puerto Rican community health workers. During home visits, the family will be educated using a standard asthma Core Curriculum which is tailored to individual needs, strengths, and beliefs. Specific Aim 1 is to test the ability of this tailored community health worker self-management intervention to reduce home asthma triggers and increase medication adherence in Puerto Rican adolescents with asthma. Specific Aim 2 is to test if any changes in triggers and adherence associated with this intervention are sustained 8 months after the completion of the active intervention. Another goal of the study is to build community capacity for asthma management in the target high-risk community.

Conditions

Asthma

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

community health worker

community health workers will provide education in the home

BEHAVIORAL

mailed information

information will be mailed to the home on the same schedule as the experimental intervention

Sponsors & Collaborators

Rush University Medical Center
lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Purpose: TREATMENT
Masking: SINGLE
Model: PARALLEL

Eligibility

Max Age: 18 Years
Sex: ALL
Healthy Volunteers: No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start: 2009-10-31
Primary Completion: 2012-03-31
Completion: 2012-03-31

Countries

United States

Study Locations

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Entities

Diseases

Asthma