Nursing Interventions to Mitigate Climate Change-related Effects on Symptom Severity and Physical Capacity (climate effect)

Norther Private Collage of Nursing

Status: Completed

Conditions: Asthma Exacerbations

Treatments: Other: nursing intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07111143

senior asthma

Details and patient eligibility

About

Randomize controlled, parallel, double-blind, with two arms, which purpose is verify the nursing educational intervention effects to reduce asthma severity symptoms in older adults.

Full description

Climate change is a global concern with far, impacting numerous aspects of human health and well-being especially asthmatic older adults. So that the aim of this study was to evaluate the risk of dry eyes and effectiveness of nursing interventions for reducing climate changes effects on symptoms severity and physical capacity among asthmatic older adults through education to reduce climate effects compared to control group who receive asthma drugs only. This study is a randomize control trail to determine the best care for reducing the severity of symptoms and improve physical capacity from the period from 1/11/ 2024 until 30/4/ 2025. The expected result is decreasing severity of asthma and improve physical capacity.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Typically involve confirmation of an asthma diagnosis by a physician
• Age range (often 60 and above ).
• Must be able to provide informed consent and communicate.

Exclusion criteria

• Severe comorbidities, recent asthma exacerbations requiring oral corticosteroids
• Inability to communicate effectively or perform necessary lung function tests.
• Cognitive impairments

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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120 participants in 2 patient groups

placebo, bronchodilator, cortisone if necessary

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Active comparator: asthmatic medication only

Treatment:

Other: nursing intervention

education group

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention group received a nursing intervention, which included three educational sessions classified into one session for the theoretical part through using face to face lecture, discussion, and two sessions for the practical part by utilizing PowerPoint, discussion, demonstration and re-demonstration. The researchers divided the participants into small groups each group consisted 3-4 cases, and three educational sessions provided for each group after data collection.

Treatment:

Other: nursing intervention