Reducing Asthma Disparities by Improving Provider-Patient Communication

Completed

Conditions studied: Asthma

In brief

The purpose of this study will be to assess the impact of a culturally-sensitive, patient-focused asthma communication instrument (ACCI) designed to enhance provider-patient communication by prompting and guiding providers in assessments of disease severity and discussion of adherence behaviors with minority patients with asthma.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00181194

Run by

Johns Hopkins University

People needed

350

Starts

2005-05-01

Expected to finish

2012-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-08-21

Who can join

Age: 12 and older, up to 85. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• are able to provide informed consent;
• report physician-diagnosed asthma;
• report asthma symptoms and/or use of short-acting reliever medication at least twice weekly in the past month.

You may not qualify if…

• state they do not have asthma;
• have mild intermittent disease
• no recent evidence of disease activity.

Where it is running

• Johns Hopkins Asthma And Allergy Center — Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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