Improving Asthma Outcomes Through Cultural Competence Training for Physicians

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Conditions studied: Asthma

In brief

The proposed randomized clinical trial will compare two educational interventions: Physicians Asthma Care Education (PACE) and PACE Plus with 90 physicians in Atlanta and the Bronx and their 1192 patients.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01251523

Run by

University of Michigan

People needed

1176

Starts

2010-11-01

Expected to finish

2015-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-03-15

Who can join

Age: any, up to 99. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Physician enrollment criteria are: 1) licensed physician in practice and board certified in pediatrics or family medicine; 2) treating children with asthma; 3) full-time in a practice in Atlanta, GA or New York City, NY; 4) not Latino/Hispanic or African American in ethnicity/race; 5) consenting to participate and 6) will generate a roster of pediatric asthma patients.
• The following patient selection criteria will be used.
• The child must: 1) be treated by the participating physician during the study intake period; 2) be between one and 16 years of age; 3) have a diagnosis of asthma made by a physician using the NAEPP Guidelines for the diagnosis of asthma (NHLBI, 2007) (The investigators will not accept alternative descriptions such as reactive airway disease, bronchitis, or wheezy bronchitis. The determination must be asthma); 4) have at least one emergency medical care visit in the previous year (hospitalization, or ED or physician office visit on an emergency basis defined as administration of epinephrine sub-cutaneously or bronchodilators by aerosol); 5) not have other chronic disorders that have pulmonary complications, e.g. sickle cell disease; 6) be of self-identified African American or Latino/Hispanic race/ethnicity.
• In addition, the parent/caretaker must meet the following criteria: 1) be the one usually responsible for the child's car; 2) be of self identified African American or Latino/Hispanic race/ethnicity; 3) have access to a telephone; and 4) consent to participate.

You may not qualify if…

• Physicians and patients who cannot meet the above inclusion criteria

Where it is running

• University of Michigan School of Public Health — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

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