Project CURA: The Community United to Challenge Asthma

• Sponsor: Rush University Medical Center (Other)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT01061424
• Collaborator: (none)
• Enrollment: 51
• Location: 1
• Arms: 2
• Duration (Months): 32
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 1.6

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

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.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Asthma	Behavioral: community health worker; Behavioral: mailed information	N/A

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Actual Enrollment: 51 participants
• Allocation: Randomized
• Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)
• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Official Title: A Community-Academic Partnership to Improve Asthma Management in Latino Children
• Study Start Date: Oct 1, 2009
• Actual Primary Completion Date: Jun 1, 2012
• Actual Study Completion Date: Jun 1, 2012

Arms and Interventions

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

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. medication adherence [1 year]

Secondary Outcome Measures

1. trigger reduction [1 year]

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 5 Years and Older
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Inclusion Criteria:

• Puerto Rican

• In elementary school

• Diagnosed with asthma

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not in school

• Mild intermittent asthma

• Well controlled asthma

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Rush University Medical Center	Chicago	Illinois	United States	60612

Sponsors and Collaborators

• Rush University Medical Center

Investigators

• Principal Investigator: Molly A Martin, MD, Rush University Medical Center

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: Molly A. Martin, MD, MD, Rush University Medical Center
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01061424
• Other Study ID Numbers: 1R21HL087769-01A1
• First Posted: Feb 3, 2010
• Last Update Posted: Aug 15, 2012
• Last Verified: Aug 1, 2012

• Keywords provided by Molly A. Martin, MD, MD, Rush University Medical Center: pediatric asthma
• Additional relevant MeSH terms: Asthma

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Aug 15, 2012