NCT02253433

The Houston HIITBAC for African Americans

The Houston Home-Based Integrated Intervention Targeting Better Asthma Control (HIITBAC) for African Americans

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 264 (actual)
• Sponsor: Baylor College of Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to improve the health of African-American adults who have poorly controlled asthma. The study compares a home-based exposure reduction and asthma control intervention to enhanced in-clinic care that includes a standard clinical appointment as well as information from a detailed exposure history, asthma education, assessment for allergies, and a customized asthma self-management plan developed using motivational interviewing. The interventional group receives enhanced in-clinic care, as well as a customized home-based environmental exposure assessment and multicomponent exposure reduction and asthma control intervention (five home visits over approximately 12 months).

Detailed description

The study hypothesis is that the addition of a holistic, home-based environmental exposure reduction and asthma control intervention to enhanced in-clinic care will result in statistically significant improvements in key measures of health and quality of life among Houston-area African-American adults with poorly controlled asthma. This is a pragmatic randomized controlled clinical trial that compares the effectiveness of a customized, holistic, patient-centered, home-based environmental intervention for improving asthma control (the "intervention") with enhanced clinic-based care. Both arms receive identical in-clinic care, including collected self-report information from detailed health and exposure questionnaires, asthma education, assessment for allergies, and a customized asthma self-management plan developed using motivational interviewing. The intent of the study is to assess-real-life effectiveness of a home-based intervention in African-American adults with poorly controlled asthma.

Conditions

• Asthma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Enhanced Clinic Care	The intervention includes a standard clinical appointment including spirometry, as well as collection of self-report information from detailed health and exposure questionnaires, asthma education, assessment for allergies, and a customized asthma self-management plan developed using motivational interviewing.
OTHER	Enhanced Clinic Care + Home Intervention	The home-based component includes environmental exposure assessment (observed and measured) and a multicomponent exposure reduction and asthma control intervention (five home visits over approximately 12 months).

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-01-08
• Primary completion: 2018-01-26
• Completion: 2018-01-26
• First posted: 2014-10-01
• Last updated: 2018-11-14
• Results posted: 2018-11-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States