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The Community United to Challenge Asthma (Project CURA)

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Status

Completed

Conditions

Asthma

Treatments

Behavioral: community health worker
Behavioral: mailed information

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01061424
1R21HL087769-01A1

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study compares an asthma self-management intervention, delivered to the family and tailored to their needs and cultural beliefs, to standard asthma education in high-risk Puerto Rican children in elementary school. The primary outcomes are asthma medication adherence and trigger reduction.

Enrollment

51 patients

Sex

All

Ages

5+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Puerto Rican
  • In elementary school
  • Diagnosed with asthma

Exclusion criteria

  • Not in school
  • Mild intermittent asthma
  • Well controlled asthma

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

51 participants in 2 patient groups

mailed information
Active Comparator group
Description:
information on asthma is mailed to the home on the same schedule as the other arm
Treatment:
Behavioral: mailed information
community health worker
Experimental group
Description:
community health worker provides home visits for education
Treatment:
Behavioral: community health worker

Trial contacts and locations

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