A Coping Skills Intervention for Low-SES Latino Families of Children with Asthma
Overview
The aims of this study compare the effectiveness of Adapt 2 Asthma with standard asthma self-management to improve asthma control and asthma-related functional outcomes in families of low-SES
Team Members
Principal Investigator
Joselyn Macias
Social Science/Humanities Research Associate I
Mario Gomez Elizondo
Graduate Research Assistant
Spencer Westcott
Graduate Research Assistant
Valeria Guillen
Volunteer
Ana Garcia Villsana
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Publications
Dillard-Cooke, J. B., Mosley, K. C., McCarthy, C. J., & Awad, G. H. (2025). A Student Like Me: Black Student Achievement Moderates the Relationship Between Teacher-Student Racial Matching and the Occupational Wellbeing of Black Teachers in the United States. Teaching and teacher education, 159, 105010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2025.105010
Rodríguez, E. M., Westcott, S., Calderón, M. P. Y., Horner, S. D., Matsui, E. C., Dillard, J., Fareed, H., & Camacho, J. (2024). Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of Adapt 2 Asthma (A2A), a culturally relevant coping skills and asthma management intervention for Latinx Families. Trials, 25(1), 706. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-024-08531-w
Dillard, J. B., & Rodríguez, E. M. (2024). The role of school safety perceptions in childhood asthma diagnosis disparities. Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association, 43(10), 747–756. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001391
Rodríguez, E. M., Horner, S. D., Bearman, S. K., Gulbas, L., George-Jones, J., Alvarado, C., & Esperanza, C. (2022). Development and Pilot Randomized Trial of a Coping Skills Intervention for Low-SES Latinx Families of Children with Asthma. Clinical practice in pediatric psychology, 10(2), 115–127. https://doi.org/10.1037/cpp0000423