Recruiting
Phase 2

Stress Management

Sponsor:

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Code:

NCT01445015

Conditions

Asthma

Psychosocial Stress

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 8 - 15

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Stress management program

Peer viewed movies

Study Details

Brief summary:

The study will utilize a stress management program delivered over 10 sessions that is hypothesized to result in decreased stress levels and improved coping strategies in an inner city adolescent asthma population. Participants will include adolescents ages 10-15 years with physician diagnosed asthma. The outcome measures will be obtained via psychosocial questionnaires and spirometry.

Conditions

Asthma

Psychosocial Stress

Study ID

NCT01445015

Start date

Jul, 2011

Status verified date

Sep, 2011

Completion date

Jun, 2012

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Feb, 2012

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 8 - 15

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Ages 8-15 years of age
  • Physician diagnosed asthma based on NHBLI guidelines
  • English speaking
  • Child assent/parental consent

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Refusal of child assent/parental consent
  • Non-English speaking
  • History of psychiatric illness, autoimmune disease, HIV/AIDs, smoking history.

Study Design

Enrollment

50 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Stress management program

active comparator: peer viewed movies

Interventions

Stress management program

10 session intervention utilizing a cognitive behavorial program with a goal of stress reduction

Peer viewed movies

PG rated movies to be viewed over 10 sessions in peer setting

Primary outcome measure

  • Scope of change in perceived stress from enrollment to completion of study using the Perceived stress scale [ Time Frame: 5 weeks ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Lisa Moreno, MD

718-350-6680lim2022@med.cornell.edu

Locations

Cornell Weill Pulmonary/Allergy pediatric clinics

Recruiting

New York, New York, United States, 10021

Contacts

Lisa Moreno, MD

718-350-6680lim2022@med.cornell.edu

Principal Investigator:

Lisa Moreno, MD

More Information

Sponsor

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Last update posted

Oct 3, 2011

Last verified

Sep, 2011

Keywords

  • adolescents

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Weill Medical College of Cornell University on 2011-10-03.