Self-Management Using Smartphone Application for Chronic Disease Care in Real siTuation (SMART-Asthma): Adult

Inje University

Status: Completed

Conditions: BRONCHIAL ASTHMA

Treatments: Device: SMART ARM

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01918293

SMART-ASTHMA (ADULT)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Bronchial asthma is an chronic airway disease with bronchial hypersensitivity due to inflammation and bronchial muscle contraction. It can cause recurrent dyspnea, cough, wheezing and severe life-threatening attack and lower quality of life. In addition, it make large amount of socioeconomic loss as about 3.7 billion US dollars.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• using smartphone
• alleged bronchial asthma over 3months & positive of bronchodilator response test or bronchial provocation test

Exclusion criteria

• COPD
• active pulmonary TUBERCULOSIS
• Acute exacerbation within 4weeks
• severe psychological disorder
• severe systemic disease; severe LC, ESRD ...
• MALIGNANCY

Trial design

60 participants in 2 patient groups

SMART arm

Experimental group

Description:

Using smartphone application for control of asthma

Treatment:

Device: SMART ARM

conventional arm

No Intervention group

Description:

non-using smartphone application for control asthma