A Culturally Tailored Scalable Asthma Intervention for Hispanic Children (Asthma Guardian)

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• An individual who meets any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation in this study:
  • Unwilling to provide consent for research activities
  • Cognitive inability to provide consent
  • Whose child has evidence of other chronic lung or significant cardiovascular disease
  • Whose child has a history of intubation for asthma

• Provision of signed and dated informed consent forms.
• Who has a child who is 5-12 years of age
• Whose child meets criteria for current persistent asthma defined as either:
  • On a long-term controller medication for asthma, or
  • Meet NAEPP guideline requirements for persistent disease:)(35)
  • Asthma symptoms 3 or more days per week over the past 2 weeks OR
  • Nocturnal asthma symptoms at least 3 times in the past month
• Whose child has had an asthma exacerbation, defined as an oral steroid burst, in the previous 12 months
• Parent/Caregiver identifies as Mexican American or other Hispanic descent
• Whose child has clinician diagnosed asthma
• Access to necessary resources for participating in a technology-based intervention (i.e., computer, smart phone, internet access)
• Whose child is not currently participating in another asthma study.
  • The parent/caregiver is the primary study participant, but the child will be asked to complete some surveys at baseline and six months, so an assent will be obtained from the child.