Asthma
Conditions
Keywords
Using Parent Mentors to Improve Asthma Care for Urban Minority Children
Brief 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.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALUsing Parent Mentors to Improve Asthma Care for Urban Minority Children
Sponsors
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Study design
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
2 Years to 18 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
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.
Outcome results
None listed