Stress Management Intervention in Inner City Adolescents With Asthma (SIPIICAA)

Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM)

Status and phase: Unknown; Phase 2

Conditions: Asthma; Psychosocial Stress

Treatments: Behavioral: Stress management program; Other: Peer viewed movies

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01445015

5T32HS000066

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 15 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Ages 8-15 years of age
• Physician diagnosed asthma based on NHBLI guidelines
• English speaking
• Child assent/parental consent

Exclusion criteria

• Refusal of child assent/parental consent
• Non-English speaking
• History of psychiatric illness, autoimmune disease, HIV/AIDs, smoking history.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Stress management program

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Stress management program

peer viewed movies

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Peer viewed movies