The Community United to Challenge Asthma (Project CURA)

Rush

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

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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