Barriers to Adherence to Asthma Controller Meds in Low Income Urban Minority Adolescents

Qualitative Analysis of the Barriers to Adherence With Asthma Controller Medication Among Inner City African American Adolescents as Identified Through Focus Group Data

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00967720

Acronym

ADEPT

Enrollment

Registered

2009-08-28

Start date

2008-03-31

Completion date

2009-08-31

Last updated

2017-11-21

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Conditions

Asthma

Brief summary

Poor adherence to appropriate asthma medications is an important risk factor contributing to high asthma morbidity and mortality in urban African American adolescents. As part of the ADEPT (Adolescent Disease Empowerment and Persistency Technology) for Asthma Pilot 2 study, a focus group was developed specifically to explore existing barriers to adherence among inner city African American adolescent asthmatics.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

OTHER

Time perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

12 Years to 15 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* 12-18 years of age * self identify as African American * have persistent asthma * read at a minimum fourth grade reading level * be on a prescribed daily inhaled corticosteroid medication for asthma

Exclusion criteria

* candidate refusal or presence of other co-morbidities

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Focus groups explored whether a new communication medium improved adherence to asthma controller medications and to examine existing barriers to adherence among four urban African American adolescents with uncontrolled moderate persistent asthma	—

Outcome results