Distance Education Versus Usual Care Qualification in Asthma Care (RESPIRANET)

Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Status: Completed

Conditions: Asthma

Treatments: Other: usual care; Behavioral: Continuing education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01595971

MED/FNS 774/08

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of multifaceted educational interventions in the care of asthma, conducted remotely over the platform TelessaúdeRS in teams of the Family Health Strategy and the consequent clinical improvement patients.

Full description

Cluster-randomized trial with follow-up of 6 months. The aim of this study is to determine whether multifaceted interventions performed at a distance for the care of asthma symptoms reduce overhead, improve asthma control and qualify the care provided to patients.

Enrollment: 467 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 45 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Practice:Participate in the Telessaúde/RS. Minimal staff consisting of a general practitioner, nurse, nurse and community health agents (CHA), ability to give at least ten patients diagnosed with asthma, located in a municipality to make available for free inhaled medication (short-acting bronchodilators and corticosteroids ) for the treatment of asthma and willingness to participate in the study.
• Patients: 5 to 45 years with a diagnosis of asthma made by a physician and register at least one consultation for asthma or an asthma-related hospitalization during the year preceding the beginning of the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with other chronic diseases with pulmonary complications such as tuberculosis, cancer and cystic fibrosis or those with severe mental illness

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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467 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

continuing education

Experimental group

Description:

RESPIRANET is a multifaceted intervention directed at professionals of the Family Health Teams in the inner cities.Includes telemedicine, reminders, video conferences, educational materials for patients and consultants.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Continuing education

Usual Care

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

usual care

Treatment:

Other: usual care