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ACTION: physicAl aCtiviTy In minOrity womeN With Asthma Intervention
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating ACTION Intervention and Enhanced usual care for Asthma. Completed, enrolled 53 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The ACTION intervention: physicAl aCtiviTy In minOrity womeN with asthma is a 3lifestyle physical activity intervention refined to be applicable for sedentary African American (AA) women with asthma. The main outcome of this study is to test the feasibility, acceptability and estimate the efficacy of the ACTION intervention in a randomized controlled pilot of 80 AA women with asthma within a pragmatic community setting at 24-weeks.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
The intervention is based on the Women's Lifestyle Physical Activity Program, a culturally sensitive lifestyle physical activity intervention for African American (AA) women. There are 2 phases to the intervention: Adoptive (24 weeks) and Maintenance (12 weeks). 3 motivational/reminder texts will be made each week during the adoption phase. 5 Group sessions(adoptive): Participants will be given individualized step goals, watch a short DVD featuring AA women demonstrating skills and sharing experiences of engaging in walking. 1 Group session (maintenance): watch a short DVD featuring AA women demonstrating skills and sharing experiences of engaging in walking, reinforce barriers and facilitators to walking. An interventionist will lead a discussion on role-modeling and encouraging problem solving. Each intervention group will have 10 women with 1 interventionist. Data will be collected at 3 time points: baseline, 24-weeks and 36-weeks.
Participants will attend 1 two hour asthma education/physical activity session at community location near them. Participants will review basic asthma topics in a didactic session and will include exercising with asthma and exercise-induced asthma. Participants will be given Fitbit and provided instructions on how to use it. Participants may receive 2 newsletters with information on asthma and reminder texts regarding data collection visits. Data will be collected at 3 time points: baseline, 24-weeks and 36-weeks.