The Community United to Challenge Asthma

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Asthma
• Interventions: Behavioral: community health worker; Behavioral: mailed information

• Registration Number: NCT01065883
• Lead Sponsor: Rush University Medical Center

Brief 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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2009-10
• Study First Submitted: 2010-02-01
• Study First Submitted QC: 2010-02-08
• Study First Posted: 2010-02-09
• Primary Completion: 2012-03
• Study Completion: 2012-03
• Status Verified: 2012-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2012-08-13
• Last Update Posted: 2012-08-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 50

Inclusion Criteria

• Puerto Rican
• In high school
• Have asthma

Exclusion Criteria

• More than 18 years old
• In last year of school
• Mild intermittent or controlled asthma

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
community health worker	community health worker	community health workers will provide education in the home
mailed information	mailed information	information will be mailed to the home on the same schedule as the experimental intervention

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
asthma medication adherence	before randomization, month 5 after randomization (post-intervention), month 12 after randomization (post-maintanance)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
asthma trigger reduction	before randomization, month 5 after randomization (post-intervention), month 12 after randomization (post-maintanance)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Rush University Medical Center; 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States