E-support for Healthcare Processes - ASTHMA (E-ASTHMA)

The University Clinic of Pulmonary and Allergic Diseases Golnik

Status: Completed

Conditions: Asthma

Treatments: Other: Self management asthma plan indorsment.

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01461642

L7 - 3653 - ASTHMA

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to establish and clinically evaluate a new approach to treating asthma by using information and communication technologies (ICT). A mobile environment, and organizational interventions to improve the process of an integrated treatment of people with asthma will be identified, developed, introduced and clinically evaluated.

Full description

A mobile environment to improve the process of an integrated treatment of people with asthma will be identified, developed, introduced and clinically evaluated. The study will include 120 patients diagnosed with asthma that is poorly managed. The study will use the ACT (Asthma Control Test) questionnaire and an evaluation questionnaire that will cover issues regarding the satisfaction of subjects with asthma care offered. Subjects with a PEF meter, will be able to enter the value of PEF (Peak Expiratory Flow).

In addition to this, users can enter values (1) physical activity (type, duration, intensity), and (2) food (type, quantity).

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• ACT points <19
• Daily symptoms> = 2 days/week
• Night symptoms> = 1 night/week
• Rescue medication > 2days/week
• At least one asthma exacerbation in the past year, but not in the last month, which was treated with oral glucocorticoid

Exclusion criteria

• Worsening of asthma in the last 4 weeks (treated with oral corticosteroids)
• Age >70 or <18 years
• Significant co-morbidity
• Does not own or know how to handle a mobile phone
• No internet access
• Not able to perform a PEF measurment
• Not able to use inhalor

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Asthma - ICT support.

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Self management asthma plan indorsment.

Asthma, comparator - no ICT support

No Intervention group