Reducing Asthma Disparities by Improving Provider-Patient Communication



Status:Completed
Conditions:Asthma
Therapuetic Areas:Pulmonary / Respiratory Diseases
Healthy:No
Age Range:12 - 85
Updated:8/23/2018
Start Date:May 2005
End Date:December 2012

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Trial Summary
Trial Overview
Inclusion Criteria

Reducing Asthma Disparities by Improving Provider-Patient Communication About Asthma Severity and Adherence With Therapy

The purpose of this study will be to assess the impact of a culturally-sensitive,
patient-focused asthma communication instrument (ACCI) designed to enhance provider-patient
communication by prompting and guiding providers in assessments of disease severity and
discussion of adherence behaviors with minority patients with asthma.

Improving communication between health care providers and their patients is the critical
first step in efforts designed to reduce asthma-related health disparities in urban areas.
Improving communication will help providers tailor asthma therapies to their patients' needs,
and help providers and patients to overcome barriers (e.g., concerns about adverse effects)
to adherence with those asthma treatment plans.

Inclusion Criteria:

- are able to provide informed consent;

- report physician-diagnosed asthma;

- report asthma symptoms and/or use of short-acting reliever medication at least twice
weekly in the past month.

Exclusion Criteria:

- state they do not have asthma;

- have mild intermittent disease

- no recent evidence of disease activity.
We found this trial at
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site
Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center
Baltimore, Maryland 21224
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