This study compares an asthma self-management intervention, delivered to the family and tailored to their needs and cultural beliefs, to standard asthma education on two risk factors for asthma exacerbations in high-risk Puerto Rican children in high school. The self-management intervention will be a series of home visits provided by Puerto Rican community health workers. During home visits, the family will be educated using a standard asthma Core Curriculum which is tailored to individual needs, strengths, and beliefs. Specific Aim 1 is to test the ability of this tailored community health worker self-management intervention to reduce home asthma triggers and increase medication adherence in Puerto Rican adolescents with asthma. Specific Aim 2 is to test if any changes in triggers and adherence associated with this intervention are sustained 8 months after the completion of the active intervention. Another goal of the study is to build community capacity for asthma management in the target high-risk community.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
50
community health workers will provide education in the home
information will be mailed to the home on the same schedule as the experimental intervention
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois, United States
asthma medication adherence
Time frame: before randomization, month 5 after randomization (post-intervention), month 12 after randomization (post-maintanance)
asthma trigger reduction
Time frame: before randomization, month 5 after randomization (post-intervention), month 12 after randomization (post-maintanance)
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