Cornell Translational Behavioral Science Research Consortium: Asthma Qualitative Study

Completed

Conditions studied: Asthma

In brief

To explore and illuminate the cultural, social, and psychological factors that either facilitate or serve as barriers to behavioral change in asthma patients.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00195065

Run by

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

People needed

60

Starts

2003-04-01

Expected to finish

2003-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2008-04-03

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients will be eligible for this study if their physicians consider them medically able to participate, if they are 18 years of age or older, and if they have a diagnosis of mild to moderate asthma based on the NHLBI Asthma Expert Panel's classification system which rates symptoms, frequency of exacerbations, nocturnal attacks, activity restriction, use of medications, and pulmonary function.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients will be excluded from this study for the following reasons:
• If they are unable to walk several blocks for whatever reason;
• If they have musculoskeletal or neurological deficits that preclude increased physical activity;
• If they have other pulmonary diseases;
• If they have cardiac disease or other severe comorbidity;
• If they are unable to provide informed consent because of cognitive deficits;
• If they refuse to participate.

Where it is running

• New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Medical College of Cornell University — New York, New York, United States

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