Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT00967720
Barriers to Adherence to Asthma Controller Meds in Low Income Urban Minority Adolescents
Qualitative Analysis of the Barriers to Adherence With Asthma Controller Medication Among Inner City African American Adolescents as Identified Through Focus Group Data
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 4 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Rush University Medical Center · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 12 Years – 15 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
Poor adherence to appropriate asthma medications is an important risk factor contributing to high asthma morbidity and mortality in urban African American adolescents. As part of the ADEPT (Adolescent Disease Empowerment and Persistency Technology) for Asthma Pilot 2 study, a focus group was developed specifically to explore existing barriers to adherence among inner city African American adolescent asthmatics.
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2008-03-01
- Primary completion
- 2009-08-01
- Completion
- 2009-08-01
- First posted
- 2009-08-28
- Last updated
- 2017-11-21
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00967720. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.