A Coping Skills Program for Children With Asthma

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

560 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-11-14

Study Completion Date

2025-04-30

Brief Summary

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Uncontrolled asthma in school-aged children is a significant public health problem. Latino children living in low-income contexts are at increased risk for uncontrolled asthma compared to non-Latino white children, and stress is an unaddressed factor in this disparity. Therefore, the purpose of the current study is to test an intervention program that teaches families skills to cope with asthma-related and other sources of stress. Specifically, the study will compare the effects of the combined coping skills + asthma management program with a standard asthma management program in 280 families of Latino children with asthma. The study will also look at why the program may have an effect, and specifically whether the program impacts child coping, parent coping, or family asthma management behaviors. The main hypothesis is that the combined coping skills + asthma management program will improve asthma outcomes more than the standard asthma management program.

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Detailed Description

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This study is a randomized controlled trial (RCT) examining the effects and mediators of Adapt 2 Asthma (A2A), a coping skills + asthma management intervention, compared to standard asthma self-management (AM) for Latino children with asthma and their parents/caregivers living in low-socioeconomic status (SES) contexts. The focus of the study is to test the effects of A2A on asthma control, quality of life, lung function, school absences, and emergency department visits, and to identify child and parent mediational pathways of A2A.

Children ages 8 to 14 years old with asthma and their parents/caregivers will participate. The investigators will enroll 280 youth who are patients at the partner primary care clinics and 280 of their parents/caregivers to participate. The investigators will identify patients with asthma in the study age range through reviewing records from the partner clinics as well as natural referral when patients attend appointments. The investigators will screen identified patients for eligibility. Enrolled families will complete assessments at 1 week pre-intervention, 1 week post-intervention, and at 6- and 12-month follow-up timepoints.

Research staff will collect assessment data in the form of child and parent surveys, interviews and spirometry. Providers will also audiotape sessions, which will be used for case supervision and to measure fidelity to the intervention. Youth and parents/caregivers will provide all data. Participant data will be de-identified and stored in the principal investigator's locked laboratory, and all computerized data will be encrypted with University approved encryption software to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data.

Conditions

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Asthma in Children

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Combined coping skills + asthma management arm

The combined coping skills + asthma management arm is a family-based coping skills + asthma management intervention that is bilingual and culturally relevant for Latino families. This program is manualized with video-guided and interactive content to improve coping with stress and asthma management behaviors for both children and their parents. Coping strategies taught include primary and secondary control coping. Asthma management content is interactive and culturally tailored.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Combined coping skills + asthma management

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

This arm includes a curriculum teaching coping skills and culturally relevant asthma management skills.

Standard asthma management arm

The standard asthma management (AM) arm is an asthma management intervention covering standard asthma self-management content (e.g., symptom recognition, self-monitoring). AM is manualized and is matched in length, time, and number of sessions to the experimental arm.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Standard Asthma Management (AM)

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

This arm includes a curriculum teaching standard asthma management skills.

Interventions

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Combined coping skills + asthma management

This arm includes a curriculum teaching coping skills and culturally relevant asthma management skills.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Standard Asthma Management (AM)

This arm includes a curriculum teaching standard asthma management skills.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

* Inclusion criteria are that (a) the child has a diagnosis of asthma as reported by the child's medical provider and confirmed by the parent; (b) the child is a current patient at a participating clinic; (c) the child is 8 to 14 years old; (d) the child is Latino/a; and (e) the child and parent speak English or Spanish.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Exclusion criteria are that the presence of a disability interferes with the child's participation in the intervention beyond accommodations feasible in primary care.

Minimum Eligible Age

8 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No