NCT01065883

The Community United to Challenge Asthma

A Family Intervention for Pediatric Asthma Self-Management in Puerto Ricans

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Rush University Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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

Type	Name	Description
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

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-10-01
• Primary completion: 2012-03-01
• Completion: 2012-03-01
• First posted: 2010-02-09
• Last updated: 2012-08-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States