BREATHE: An Efficacy-implementation Trial Among Black Adults With Uncontrolled Asthma
BREATHE: An Efficacy-implementation Trial of a Brief Shared Decision Making Intervention Among Black Adults With Uncontrolled Asthma in Federally Qualified Health Centers (Trial and Post-trial)
Who can join
Ages 18 and older · All sexes · Healthy volunteers welcome
Full eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria (participants): Patients participants will 1. be adults (\> or = 18 years of age) 2. self-report race as 'Black' race (African American, African, Caribbean, West Indian, multi-racial \[Black AND one or more additional races\]); identify their ethnicity as Hispanic OR non-Hispanic 3. have clinician-diagnosed persistent asthma (defined as being prescribed inhaled corticosteroids in the last 48 months) or have had an asthma exacerbation (e.g., ER visit, course of Prednisone) regardless of controller medicine use 4. receive asthma care at a partner FQHC and 5. screen positive for uncontrolled asthma as measured by the Asthma Control Questionnaire- 6 items (ACQ-6) and erroneous beliefs as measured by the Conventional and Alternative Management for Asthma (CAM-A) survey. Exclusion Criteria (participants): 1. non-English speaking 2. serious mental health conditions that preclude completion of study procedures or confound analyses or 3. participation in a listening session Inclusion Criterion (clinicians): 1\. those who manage a panel of adult asthma patients Inclusion Criteria (loved ones): 1. must be identified by patient participant as a loved one and 2. loved one must be a family member or friend of the patient participant. Exclusion Criteria (loved ones): 1. non-English speaking or 2. serious mental health conditions that preclude completion of study procedures or confound analyses
About the study
This study is an efficacy-implementation trial to:
1. evaluate systematically the efficacy of BREATHE in 200 Black adults receiving care at urban federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) for uncontrolled asthma; and 2. identify multi-level barriers and facilitators to the widespread adoption and implementation of BREATHE in FQHCs.
What is being tested
- BREATHE Intervention (behavioral)
- Control Intervention (behavioral)
Sponsor: Columbia University · Participants: 400 · Started: Jan 19, 2023
Contact the study team
- Maureen George, PhD · Phone: 2123051175
Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT05341726
Locations in the U.S.
| New York | Sun River Health, Beacon Bedford Stuyvesant Family Health Center, Brooklyn |
Conditions
From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 30, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.