Denver Health Asthma Management Program (DHAMP)

Denver Health and Hospital Authority

Status: Completed

Conditions: Asthma

Treatments: Other: Person of Support; Other: Denver Health Asthma Management Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02860390

15-0308 (Anderson)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a Comparison Effectiveness Research (CER) study in a population of 13 to 40 year-old individuals with persistent asthma comparing differing levels of texting interventions with each other and with a usual care group. The two texting interventions include 1) texting only the individual with asthma and 2) texting the individual with asthma and an important person in that individual's life such as a parent or spouse. These two texting groups will be compared to a group receiving usual asthma care at Denver Health.

Full description

This is Phase 2 of a two-phase pilot project to build and study a texting program for patients at Denver Health who have persistent asthma. The overall goal of the program is to provide educational support for asthma care between clinic visits and to survey for evidence of poorly controlled asthma, which would prompt clinic recall. Phase 1 used a focus group/interview methodology to inform Phase 2 and allow Phase 2 to be more patient-centered. Based on results of focus groups/interviews, the investigators will conduct a three-arm trial among 13- to 19-year-olds and a two-arm trial among 20- to 40-year-olds. For the 13- to 19-year-old group, a 'usual care' group will be compared to two intervention groups: 1) a subject group receiving text messages about asthma care and 2) a group of subjects and their 'significant other', such as a parent, who will also receive the text messages. Overall, Phase 1 findings suggested the 20- to 40-year-old group was more reluctant to involve a significant other and therefore for this group a 'usual care' arm will be compared to an arm where only the patient receives the text messages, but not a significant other. Other features built into Phase 2 upon recommendation from the focus group/interview phase include a midpoint survey and tailoring the amount of texting a patient receives based on the level of asthma control elicited by administration of the validated tool, the Asthma Control Test (ACT).

Enrollment: 154 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 40 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Subject and significant other as applicable must have phone or other device capable of receiving text messages
• Ages 13 to 19 with persistent asthma per Denver Health electronic health record and/or HEDIS (modified) criteria for asthma
• Ages 20 to 40 with HEDIS (modified) criteria for persistent asthma
• Hospital-based utilization for asthma (i.e. persistent asthma)
• Denver Health Primary Care Provider visits within last 3 years
• Ability to read English or Spanish.

Exclusion criteria

• complex and special health care needs pediatric patients
• pregnant/expectant mothers
• incarcerated individuals
• Non-English and non-Spanish speakers
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease/COPD or other non-asthma pulmonary diagnoses (e.g. pulmonary function testing inconsistent with asthma and/or negative methacholine challenge testing/lack of reversibility with β-agonist, diagnostic errors despite inclusion in the Asthma Registry)
• Patients who by input of the primary care provider are less likely to participate in an interactive asthma text messaging trial (e.g. intellectual delay, mental health issues)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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154 participants in 5 patient groups

Adolescent - Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual care arm of subjects aged 13-19 years old

Adolescent - SMS

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects aged 13-19 years and receiving Denver Health Asthma Management Program (text messaging intervention)

Treatment:

Other: Denver Health Asthma Management Program

Adolescent - SMS plus support person

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects aged 13-19 years, Denver Health Asthma Management Program (text messaging intervention) sent to subjects and subjects' chosen Person of Support.

Treatment:

Other: Denver Health Asthma Management Program

Other: Person of Support

Adult - Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual care arm of subjects aged 20-40 years old.

Adult - SMS

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects aged 20-40 years and receiving Denver Health Asthma Management Program (text messaging intervention).

Treatment:

Other: Denver Health Asthma Management Program