Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Low-Income African American and Caucasian Adults With Asthma

Completed

Conditions studied: Asthma

In brief

The purpose of this study is to identify the types of and frequency of use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) strategies among low-income Caucasian and African American adults with persistent asthma. The overall goal is to collect data that will increase understanding of health beliefs and behaviors in people with low-income backgrounds so that studies can be created that may help modify and improve patients' symptoms of asthma.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00094419

Run by

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

People needed

50

Starts

2004-11-01

Expected to finish

2006-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2008-08-12

Who can join

Age: 21 and older, up to 50. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Physician-diagnosed asthma with episodes that last for long periods of time
• Medicaid recipients
• Self-identify as African American or Caucasian
• Daily use of inhaled corticosteroids
• Able to speak English
• Have mental capacity to understand and participate in the study

You may not qualify if…

• Prisoners
• History of smoking at least ten packs of cigarettes per year
• Currently smoke more than one and a half packs of cigarettes per week

Where it is running

• Johns Hopkins Bayview Campus — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
• Presbyterian Medical Center at the University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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