Parent Mentor Asthma Study

Asthma Clinical Trial

— PMA  

Official title:

Using Parent Mentors to Improve Asthma Care for Urban Minority Children

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00812136
• Other study ID #: PMA-102008-001
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A

Study information

• Verified date: April 2024
• Source: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

Other known NCT identifiers

• NCT00800020

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 0
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 2 Years to 18 Years

Eligibility

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.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Asthma

Intervention

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

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center