A Patient Advocate and Literacy-Based Treatment of Asthma

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Conditions studied: Asthma

In brief

Half of US adults have no more than basic reading and numerical skills. A consequence is inadequate health literacy, which is associated with unsatisfactory patient-provider communication and poor health outcomes in chronic diseases, including asthma. We have adapted a patient navigator intervention to address asthma in high risk communities as a practical, immediate, and sustainable method of achieving effective health literacy in patients low health literacy. This intervention will lead to improved adherence and asthma control, attenuating health disparities so marked in asthma. It is compared for efficacy and cost-effectiveness with asthma education.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01128348

Run by

University of Pennsylvania

People needed

100

Starts

2009-09-01

Expected to finish

2011-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-03-20

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• physician's diagnosis of asthma
• prescribed inhaled steroid
• moderate or severe asthma according to NHLBI Guidelines
• evidence of reversible airflow obstruction and improvement with bronchodilator
• Did not participate in the experimental arm (problem-solving) of WIN Study, HL073932

You may not qualify if…

• significant other current pulmonary or cardiac disease
• severe psychiatric problems making it impossible to understand or carryout the protocol

Where it is running

• University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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