Efficacy of a Phone Application on Treatment Adherence in Asthmatic Patients in Upper Egypt

Assiut University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Bronchial Asthma; Adherence, Medication

Treatments: Behavioral: the Medisafe android application (https://www.medisafe.com).

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06233123

asthma adherence phone

Details and patient eligibility

About

asthma adherence is mandatory for disease control

Full description

Asthma is a chronic and common disease of the airways that affects more than 339 million people globally [1]. According to WHO estimates, there were 417,918 deaths due to asthma at the global level and 24.8 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) attributable to Asthma [2, 3]. There is much evidence that self-care by patients with asthma has beneficial outcomes, including reduced hospital stays, reduced symptoms, and general compliance with treatments [4-6]. One of the approaches for promoting self-care skills in patients with asthma is to provide self-care services (i.e., providing basic information about the nature of asthma, avoiding exposure to allergens and triggers, treating with drugs, providing alerts and reminders to patients, and how to use the therapeutic tools [7]) through information technology tools (e.g. the Internet, mobile phones, and computer software). Given the increasing worldwide use of smartphones, mobile health (mHealth) technologies can work as promising tools to improve self-care in patients with asthma by providing support services such as communication information, providing learning materials, and sending reminders for behavior change [8, 9]. mHealth, as a component of electronic health, is related to the use of mobile phones and other wireless technologies to improve the provision of health-related services. Moreover, ease of use, portability, and ubiquity in all regions are the potential benefits of mHealth tools for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care of diseases also increasing access to health services and reducing the costs incurred [10]. This study aims to evaluate the role of a mobile application in reminding the patient to take his treatment and its reflection on asthma control and quality of life.

Enrollment: 180 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Doctor-diagnosed asthma. On at least Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) step 3 which means they will be on regular inhaled steroids.

No change in regular asthma treatment in the last 1 month Sufficient English-language ability to understand the text in mobile phone-delivered interventions The education level required will be at least a high school diploma.

Exclusion criteria

GINA step 5 asthma (complex issues, too unstable). Recent changes to asthma treatment within the last month Another chronic health condition (eg diabetes, congenital heart disease, cystic fibrosis) Patients without mobile device skills

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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180 participants in 2 patient groups

Application

Experimental group

Description:

intervention group that will download the Medisafe android application (https://www.medisafe.com). This mobile application uses simple English language and figures to remind the patient about the dose

Treatment:

Behavioral: the Medisafe android application (https://www.medisafe.com).

control

No Intervention group

Description:

control group with Standard Care and Medication Monitoring