Parent Mentor Asthma Study

NCT ID: NCT00812136

Last Updated: 2024-04-23

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL

Brief Summary

Asthma disproportionately affects minorities, but few studies have evaluated interventions to improve asthma outcomes in minority children.The purpose of the study is to determine whether Parent Mentors (PMs) are more effective than traditional asthma care in reducing minority children's asthma morbidity, costs, and use of services, while increasing families' quality of life and parental self-efficacy.

Conditions

Asthma

Study Design

• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION

Interventions

Using Parent Mentors to Improve Asthma Care for Urban Minority Children

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• The child was 2-18 years old
• African-American or Latino race/ethnicity for the child (by parental identification)
• Primary residence in a Milwaukee zip code
• ED or inpatient ward admission with a primary diagnosis of asthma.

Exclusion Criteria

• Significant co-morbidity, including other pulmonary conditions, cardiac pathology, renal abnormalities, diabetes mellitus, epilepsy, and other co-morbidities that might lead to ED visits or hospitalizations, and current enrollment in a case management, intervention, or outreach program for childhood asthma management.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 2 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Rebecca Gruchalla, M.D., Ph.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

UT Southwestern Medical Center

References

Flores G, Bridon C, Torres S, Perez R, Walter T, Brotanek J, Lin H, Tomany-Korman S. Improving asthma outcomes in minority children: a randomized, controlled trial of parent mentors. Pediatrics. 2009 Dec;124(6):1522-32. doi: 10.1542/peds.2009-0230.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 19948624 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

PMA-102008-001

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

NCT00800020

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Identifier Source: nct_alias