A randomized clinical trial of a culturally responsive intervention for African American women with asthma.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Few interventions have focused on the difficulties that African American women face when managing asthma.

Objective

To evaluate a telephone-based self-regulation intervention that emphasized African American women's management of asthma in a series of 6 sessions.

Methods

A total of 422 African American women with persistent asthma were randomly assigned to either an intervention or control group receiving usual care. Behavioral factors, symptoms and asthma control, asthma-related quality of life, and health care use at baseline and 2 years after baseline were assessed. Generalized estimating equations were used to assess the long-term effect of the intervention on outcomes.

Results

Compared with the control group, those who completed the full interve

SUBMITTER: Patel MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6020037 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature