NCT01445015

Stress Management Intervention in Inner City Adolescents With Asthma

Pilot Study: Stress Management Intervention as a Tool for Managing Persistent Asthma in Inner City Adolescent Patients.

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Weill Medical College of Cornell University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The study will utilize a stress management program delivered over 10 sessions that is hypothesized to result in decreased stress levels and improved coping strategies in an inner city adolescent asthma population. Participants will include adolescents ages 10-15 years with physician diagnosed asthma. The outcome measures will be obtained via psychosocial questionnaires and spirometry.

Conditions

• Asthma
• Psychosocial Stress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Stress management program	10 session intervention utilizing a cognitive behavorial program with a goal of stress reduction
OTHER	Peer viewed movies	PG rated movies to be viewed over 10 sessions in peer setting

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-07-01
• Primary completion: 2012-02-01
• Completion: 2012-06-01
• First posted: 2011-10-03
• Last updated: 2011-10-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States