An Educational Intervention to Improve Disease Management Knowledge of Hospitalized Patients With COPD

Rush

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Inpatients; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Patient Education

Treatments: Behavioral: Inpatient COPD education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03323190

15121607-IRB04

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this study is to determine if inpatient COPD education would result in improved patient knowledge of COPD.

Full description

A prospective cohort study utilizing a pre-test/post-test design will be used to test a COPD education intervention on a convenience sample of 30 patients with a diagnosis of COPD. Study participants will complete the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease questionnaire (COPD-Q) to assess their COPD knowledge. Next, a respiratory therapist will provide the first scripted COPD education session. The patient will complete the COPD-Q 24 hours and 30 days post-discharge. Demographic data, smoking status, pack-years, COPD spirometry grade, COPD symptom and exacerbation grade, previous hospital admissions, support system for managing COPD, attendance at previous formal education for COPD, current and home medications, pulmonary function test (PFT) results, vaccinations, and level of education data will be collected. Data related to patient recruitment will also be collected. Means and standard deviation will be reported for interval data. Total frequency and percentages will be reported for nominal data, and median and 25th and 75th percentile will be reported for COPD severity. Repeated measures ANOVA (p< 0.05) will be used to evaluate if an inpatient COPD self-management intervention can increase the patient's knowledge of COPD after 24 hours and again at 30 days after the initial education session.

This study is expected to show that an inpatient education of COPD can increase the patient's COPD knowledge prior to discharge and that it will be retained for at least one month post-discharge.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• History of COPD
• Spirometry confirmation of COPD either from chart or bedside spirometry i. FEV1(forced expiatory volume in 1 second)/FVC (forced vital capacity) <70% ii. FEV1 < 80% predicted
• Willingness to participate
• English-speaking
• Working phone

Exclusion criteria

• Cognitively impaired (including sedation)
• Intubated
• Non-English-speaking
• Receiving palliative or hospice service
• Enrolled in any other educational research s

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 1 patient group

Inpatient COPD patient

Experimental group

Description:

All COPD patients meeting the inclusion criteria of this study will be exposed to inpatient COPD education and tested at a later date to determine if knowledge on COPD was gained.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Inpatient COPD education