Breathe With Ease: A Unique Approach to Managing Stress (BEAMS)
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Asthma
In brief
Uncontrolled asthma in at-risk youth responds well to guideline-based therapy when patients remain adherent to their management plans. Adherence to inhaled corticosteroids (ICS), when indicated for persistent or uncontrolled asthma, is a critical component of most asthma management plans, and other self-management practices such as trigger avoidance are similarly related to improved asthma outcomes. Adherence to self-management practices is mediated by multiple factors, including psychosocial stress of parents and their children. A targeted, culturally appropriate intervention to manage psychosocial stress among the parents of young, African American, and socioeconomically disadvantaged urban children with asthma who are receiving guideline-based care may improve asthma self-management, and therefore asthma outcomes. Our overall aim is to implement and evaluate a highly collaborative, multi-dimensional, culturally appropriate and community-based asthma intervention to augment existing guideline-based best practice. The intervention will target the parents of at-risk, urban, African American youth, and will employ individualized psychosocial stress management and peer support.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02374138
- Run by
- Stephen J. Teach, MD, MPH
- People needed
- 217
- Starts
- 2015-05-01
- Expected to finish
- 2017-05-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2019-09-23
Who can join
Age: 4 and older, up to 12. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
Where it is running
- Children's National Medical Center — Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
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