Parent Mentor Asthma Study - Full Text View

Parent Mentor Asthma Study (PMA)

This study has been completed.

First Received: December 18, 2008 Last Updated: December 19, 2008 History of Changes

Sponsored by:	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Information provided by:	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00812136

Purpose

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.

Condition	Intervention
Asthma	Behavioral: Using Parent Mentors to Improve Asthma Care for Urban Minority Children

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Prevention
Official Title:	Using Parent Mentors to Improve Asthma Care for Urban Minority Children

Resource links provided by NLM:

MedlinePlus related topics: Asthma

U.S. FDA Resources

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.

Contacts and Locations

No Contacts or Locations Provided

More Information

No publications provided

Responsible Party:	UT Southwestern Medical Center ( Christina Bridon )
Study ID Numbers:	PMA-102008-001
Study First Received:	December 18, 2008
Last Updated:	December 19, 2008
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00812136 History of Changes
Health Authority:	United States: Institutional Review Board

Keywords provided by University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center:

Using Parent Mentors to Improve Asthma Care for Urban Minority Children

Study placed in the following topic categories:

Hypersensitivity
Lung Diseases, Obstructive
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Bronchial Diseases

Lung Diseases
Hypersensitivity, Immediate
Asthma
Respiratory Hypersensitivity

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Hypersensitivity
Lung Diseases, Obstructive
Immune System Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Bronchial Diseases

Lung Diseases
Hypersensitivity, Immediate
Asthma
Respiratory Hypersensitivity

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on August 28, 2009