Electronic Monitoring Combined With Weekly Feedback and Reminders

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Asthma

Treatments: Behavioral: intervention group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03277664

ESR-15-11001

Details and patient eligibility

About

A total of 96 recruited children (aged 6 months to 3 years) with mild or moderate persistent asthma who were on regular inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) were randomly allocated to receive electronic monitoring combined with instant messaging software -based weekly feeding back adherence and reminders to keep taking the ICS (intervention group) and to receive electronic monitoring only (control group). The device-monitored adherence rates and caregiver-reported adherence rates were analyzed.

Enrollment: 96 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 months to 3 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. patients having mild or moderate persistent asthma
2. 6 months-3 years
3. taking regular inhaled steroids, with no change in their medication in the last month.

Exclusion criteria

Participants who had severe persistent asthma or another respiratory disease or did not live in Shanghai were excluded.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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96 participants in 2 patient groups

intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

All the device-monitored adherence data from the previous week were downloaded from the background database and calculated by a qualified asthma nurse. Through free IMS (WeChat; Tencent, Shenzhen, CHN) available on mobile, the nurse offered feedback to the caregivers weekly according to the adherence rate and reminded them to keep taking the ICS. Caregivers were asked monthly "Has our child inhaled the medicine according to the doctor's instructions?" and "How about the frequency?" by telephone.

Treatment:

Behavioral: intervention group

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

All the device-monitored adherence data were downloaded from the background database and calculated weekly. However, feedback and reminders were not given to the caregivers. Caregivers were also asked monthly "Has our child inhaled the medicine according to the doctor's instructions?" and "How about the frequency?" by telephone.