Asthma Disparities in Latino Children:Acculturation,Illness Representations & CAM

Completed

Conditions studied: Asthma

In brief

This interdisciplinary multi-level study moves the research in asthma health disparities from descriptive studies of individual constructs and contexts to testing an integrated, multi-factorial model among Latino families and children with asthma. The investigators seek to gain a more thorough understanding of the interaction of individual characteristics, cultural and experiential factors, social-environmental context, and healthcare system factors on parents' illness representations, use of CAM and controller medications, and children's asthma health outcomes. This will be a one-year longitudinal, multi-site (Phoenix, AZ and Bronx, NY) study among samples of Mexican (N=300) and Puerto Rican (N=300) parents and children aged 5-12 who have asthma. Aim #1: Are there differences in illness representations between Mexican and Puerto Rican parents due to social and contextual factors (i.e., acculturation, education, parental age, poverty, child's illness duration, household members with asthma, and parent-healthcare provider relationship)? Aim #2: Are disparities in asthma control between Mexican and Puerto Rican children due to differences in parents' treatment decisions (CAM and controller medication use) and changes in illness representations over a one year period after controlling for the effects of acculturation, social and contextual factors, environmental triggers, and advice received from others?

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01099800

Run by

Arizona State University

People needed

534

Starts

2010-06-23

Expected to finish

2014-08-25

Last updated by the study team

2020-03-09

Who can join

Age: 5 and older, up to 12. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• child must be between 5 and 12 years of age,
• have a diagnosis of asthma as obtained from the child's medical record,
• the family is Latino (English or Spanish speaking) as self-identified by the primary caregiver,
• the child has no other significant pulmonary conditions (e.g., cystic fibrosis),
• the participating parent has primary or at least equal responsibility for the day-to-day management of the child's asthma, and
• no cognitive learning disability that could interfere with the parent's or child's (as determined by parents' report) ability to comprehend the interview questions.

You may not qualify if…

• children not meeting the above inclusion criteria
• parents who do not have primary or equal responsibility for the child's asthma mangement

Where it is running

• Arizona State University College of Nursing and Health Innovation — Phoenix, Arizona, United States
• Phoenix Children's Hospital — Phoenix, Arizona, United States
• Scottsdale Healthcare NOAH Clinic — Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
• Yeshiva University — The Bronx, New York, United States

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