Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Women of Color and Asthma Control
Brief Summary: The proposed randomized controlled trial will evaluate an innovative intervention in 420 African American women with asthma. It will be the first to use a highly tailored, telephone counseling approach to address both specific cultural factors affecting asthma and the influence of female sex and gender on control.


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

* Physician diagnosis of asthma for at least a year
* At least one acute exacerbation of asthma in past 12 months that required a visit to the emergency department, hospitalization or an unscheduled office visit for acute care and/or a course of oral steroids.
* Taking daily controller medications or symptoms consistent with persistent asthma

Exclusion Criteria:

* No phone
* Unable to speak English
* Child has another disease that requires regular monitoring by pediatrician
* A sibling is already enrolled in the study
* Child's primary asthma provider is an asthma specialist
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* individuals who fill a (incident or prevalent) prescription for inhaled corticosteroids (either monotherapy or in combination inhaler with long-acting beta-agonists) who have been diagnosed by a doctor as having asthma
* possessing a cell-phone with ability to send/receive text messages
* residing in British Columbia (BC), Canada and planning to reside in BC for the next 12 months
* registered with the medical services plan (MSP, the provincial insure of medically-required services) in the past 12 months, and planning to remain registered for the next 12 months
* designated pharmacy being the main drugstore for patient
* not participating in another interventional study
* consent to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Unable to communicate in English
* Under 14 years of age
C: Inclusion Criteria:

The study participants will be a non-institutionalized ambulatory sample of women who are willing to participate in the project and meet the following criteria:

* Self-identify as African-American
* 18 years of age or older
* Are listed on the University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) Asthma Patient Registry, a validated, all-payer registry of patients with persistent asthma cared for within the UM Health System
* Have access to a telephone or cell phone
* Are not pregnant.. Because the UMHS Asthma Patient Registry is validated, there is minimal risk of diagnostic misclassification. The Registry is created and maintained with a two-step process of identification and validation. UMHS patients with persistent asthma are initially identified through the electronic medical record using National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) criteria, billing and claims data (when available), and then are validated using documented clinical diagnoses, pulmonary function test (PFT) results, or clinician review.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients with chronic respiratory conditions, including cystic fibrosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are excluded
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patient with poorly controlled asthma

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patient under age of 12
* Not possessing a mobile phone and who don't have adequate command of the English language

Answer: C