Mobile Phone Text for Optimizing Asthma Treatment

University of Copenhagen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Asthma

Treatments: Behavioral: SMS support

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00917410

UC-SMS-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aims at providing information on how the Short Message Service (SMS) tool influences self-management in asthma patients and to assess the resulting health related effect. A wide range of models and theories exist in the compliance area, such as technical models, communication models, cognitive models and self-management models and theories. The use of some of these theories and models will serve as theoretical and explanatory tools for studying how and why the SMS tool influences the patient's self-management.

Objective:

The objective of this study is to assess the health-related effects of a SMS compliance and monitoring system for optimized asthma treatment in a controlled trial setting.

Enrollment: 244 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• asthmatics

Exclusion criteria

• below 18 and above 45
• COPD patients
• no mobile phone
• not using the prescribed asthma inhalation medication

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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244 participants in 1 patient group

SMS intervention

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: SMS support