Barriers to Adherence to Asthma Controller Meds in Low Income Urban Minority Adolescents (ADEPT)

Rush

Status: Completed

Conditions: Asthma

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00967720

08021601

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 4 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 15 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 12-18 years of age
• self identify as African American
• have persistent asthma
• read at a minimum fourth grade reading level
• be on a prescribed daily inhaled corticosteroid medication for asthma

Exclusion criteria

• candidate refusal or presence of other co-morbidities

Trial design

4 participants in 1 patient group

Barriers, Adherence, Asthma