Pediatric Coping and Language Lab

Coping with Asthma in Latinx Families living in low-SES contexts

Children with poorly controlled asthma are at risk for missing school and for emotional and behavioral difficulties. Latinx children from low-SES backgrounds experience disproportionate rates of uncontrolled asthma. Our research in this area seeks to understand coping in low-SES Latinx children with asthma and their parents, and how these factors impact children’s asthma control, emotional and behavioral well-being, and school outcomes. In partnership with primary care clinics and community sites in Austin and Del Valle, we are testing a bilingual English-Spanish intervention program to support positive health and psychosocial outcomes for children with asthma and their parents.

If you are interested in participating in this study, please visit our pediatric asthma recruitment page for more information.

We are hiring individuals to coach children and families through our intervention program!

We will train you on how to teach our program to families. Once you are trained, you will work approximately 10-15 hours per week teaching this program to families in our research study.
Please note: no degree or formal work experience is required to apply.

If you are interested in this position, please contact our Principal Investigator, Erin Rodríguez, at erodriguez@austin.utexas.edu.

This line of research is supported by a grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD R01MD014145-01) and was previously funded by a Pilot Research Grant from St. David’s Center for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Research in Underserved Populations (CHPR), and a Diversity Research Grant from the Society of Pediatric Psychology.