The Effect of Video Education on Inhaler Use Technique (InhalerEdu)

Romil Fenil Shah

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nebulizers and Vaporizers; Patient Education; E Learning

Treatments: Other: Online Video Education; Other: Written Document Educational Resource

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02660879

STU00087922

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators looked at the effect that video instruction located at www.useinhalers.com would have on improving inhaler technique at a hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The investigators compared this video instruction to written Spanish inhaler education. The investigators video taped participants before and after the intervention, and graded their technique on a pre-defined rubric.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinically-stable outpatient adults (≥18 years) with Asthma or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) with history of at least one exacerbation in last 1 year
• Clinical diagnoses of asthma or COPD

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with language barrier (unable to understand and communicate in either English or Spanish)
• Cognitive or physical dysfunction that, in the investigator's opinion, would interfere with completion of the study
• Significant co-morbidity that can confound asthma symptoms - e.g. Congestive Heart Failure, current smoker, uncontrolled Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, neuromuscular disease, chest wall deformity

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Written Education

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

These patients were video taped before they had any inhaler education using their own inhalers. They were then given written educational materials, and given 5 minutes to read these materials. They were then re-taped for their inhaler technique.

Treatment:

Other: Written Document Educational Resource

Online Video Education

Experimental group

Description:

These patients were video taped before they had any inhaler education using their own inhalers. They were then given online video education located at use-inhalers.com, and were asked to complete the education (took on average 5 minutes). They were then re-taped for their inhaler technique.

Treatment:

Other: Online Video Education