Improving Quality of Life for Teenagers With Asthma (IMPAQT)

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Asthma; Asthma in Children

Treatments: Other: Clinic consultation focused on asthma self-management

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06851715

349662 (Other Identifier)

RHM CHI1258

Details and patient eligibility

About

BACKGROUND: Asthma is a long-term lung condition affecting 1 in 11 children and young people in the UK. Many teenagers have well controlled asthma, but a significant number continue to experience regular symptoms and asthma attacks leading to hospitalisations. While non-adherence to medication is a factor, teenagers also face challenges like changing relationships with parents and peers, avoiding triggers like smoking, and fitting in treatment with daily life demands. Healthcare professionals (HCPs) also face difficulties in managing teenagers with asthma.

A previous study, funded by Asthma + Lung UK, developed a new approach to manage teenage asthma by focusing on self-efficacy, which is how confident one feels about performing a task. Teenagers completed the Adolescent Asthma Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (AASEQ), which identified areas where they needed more support. HCPs then tailored their consultations to address these needs. This approach improved the teenagers' confidence in self-managing their asthma.

Improving quality of life (QoL) is a key goal in asthma care. Therefore, the aim of this study is to determine if the self-efficacy approach improves QoL for teenagers with asthma.

METHODS: Teenagers aged 12-18 years with asthma will be recruited from hospital clinics. They will be randomly assigned to one of two groups:

1. Teenager will complete the AASEQ at the start of their appointment. The HCPs will use this to focus the consultation on areas where the teenager needs support in self-managing their asthma.
2. Teenager will have their usual consultation with the HCP.

Three months after the appointment, the QoL will be compared between the two groups using a standardised questionnaire.

IMPACT: If the self-efficacy approach proves to be beneficial, it could help HCPs to empower teenagers to better manage their asthma and ultimately improve their quality of life.

Enrollment: 98 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adolescent aged 12-18 years
• Attending a paediatric respiratory clinic
• Informed consent from adolescent aged ≥16 years, and assent plus parent/guardian consent for adolescents aged ≤16 years
• Paediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire score ≤5.5 points

Exclusion criteria

• Aged 0-11 or over 18 years
• Other significant long-term medical condition that has a day-to-day impact on their lives (except for co-existing allergic conditions, breathing pattern disorder, dysfunctional breathing, or intermittent laryngeal obstruction)
• Adolescent or parent/guardian unable to communicate sufficiently to complete consent forms.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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98 participants in 2 patient groups

Clinic consultation focused on asthma self-management

Experimental group

Description:

The participant will complete the Adolescent Asthma Self-efficacy Questionnaire (AASEQ), and the clinic healthcare professional will use the responses to focus the consultation on areas where the participant needs support for asthma self-management.

Treatment:

Other: Clinic consultation focused on asthma self-management

Usual clinic consultation

No Intervention group

Description:

The participant will not complete the AASEQ at baseline and their healthcare professional will conduct the consultation as per usual management.