Development And Evaluation of An Adaptive Web-Based Intervention for COPD

University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver)

Status: Begins enrollment in 3 months

Conditions: COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)

Treatments: Behavioral: Tiered whole health support for people living with COPD

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06770777

24-2639

Details and patient eligibility

About

Narrative-based tiered asynchronous psychosocial and behavioral whole health support for people adjusting to living with COPD. The intervention is administered by experienced LCSWs under the PI's supervision.

Full description

This study will advance health access equity for people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) by providing an asynchronous, patient-led, web-based, adaptive, flexible, and tiered intervention that easily integrates into the daily lives of both providers and patients living with COPD. This intervention includes health navigation education, health and behavior coaching, and narrative, strengths-based mental and behavioral health support. COPD is a complex chronic illness with multiple domains to study whole person support. Not only because of the significant impact of a lack of whole person support for people living with COPD but also because COPD shares many of the same symptomology and impact on daily living as other significant chronic illnesses such as heart failure, some neurological disorders, and some types of cancer (5-7). The lessons learned from studying COPD whole person support can be applied to other similar symptomatic burdensome chronic illnesses that also suffer from fragmented care.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 89 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Has access to the internet once per week
• Has been diagnosed with COPD and is being seen at the ECHCS VA Medical Center or the University of Colorado Pulmonology clinics

Exclusion criteria

• Not in a conflicting research study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 1 patient group

Participant led tiered intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Participants living with COPD will navigate to the website and choose the tiered intervention that fits their needs. The first tier is information about COPD only. Second tier is reflective writing prompts for illness narrative generation and the third tier is asynchronous mental health support from a licensed clinical social worker.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Tiered whole health support for people living with COPD