Adapting and Expanding the Asthma-Educator App

Montefiore Medicine Academic Health System

Status: Completed

Conditions: Asthma

Treatments: Other: ASTHMAXcel App

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03930381

2018-9083

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project seeks to test and refine an adapted/expanded version of a previously created ASTHMAXcel app.

Full description

The study will test the adapted app on participants ages 15-21 (recruited from outpatient primary and specialty care sites at Montefiore) with asthma, for a period of 4 and a half months, and will conduct formative and summative evaluation of the application's functionality and usability. The investigators will also be collecting process and clinical outcomes.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15 to 21 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• English-speaking individuals between 15-21
• Persistent asthma (diagnosis made by a healthcare provider)
• On a daily controller medication
• Able to give informed consent
• Smartphone (iOS or Android) access

Exclusion criteria

• Use of oral corticosteroids in the 2 weeks prior to the baseline visit
• Pregnancy
• Severe psychiatric or cognitive problems that would prohibit an individual from understanding and completing the protocol
• Patients that previously received the ASTHMA-Educator application

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Arm

Experimental group

Description:

This group will download the ASTHMAXcel application and use it for the duration of the study

Treatment:

Other: ASTHMAXcel App

Usual Care Arm

No Intervention group

Description:

This group will just receive normal provider care