To Evaluate Newly Developed Pictogram Cards and Their Utility in Improving Inhaler Techniques in Asthmatic Patients

Islamia University of Bahawalpur

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Asthma

Treatments: Other: Counselling by the Trained Pharmacist; Other: Pictograms Cards and Counselling by the Trained Pharmacist

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06562764

668/AS&R

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate newly developed pictogram cards and their utility in improving inhaler techniques in asthmatic patients.

Full description

A prospective, open-label, randomized controlled clinical study. For this purpose, pictogram cards are designed for Metered Dose Inhalers (MDI) and Dry Powder Inhalers (DPI).

The pictogram labels are designed and printed in colors with Urdu language and then attached to the inhaler devices as cards. The demographic, clinical, and medical data are collected from the patients and their medical files. Moreover, the different clinical measures are also evaluated in the recruited patients.

Enrollment: 320 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Asthmatic Patients, should take inhalers regularly for at least 3 months and come personally for re-fill.

Exclusion criteria

• Coexistence of other chronic respiratory conditions.
• Those who were difficult to communicate.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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320 participants in 3 patient groups

Controlled

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group is the set of subjects that do not receive the intervention in a study.

Counselling by the Trained Pharmacist

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention group 1 is the set of subjects that receive the "counseling intervention" in a study.

Treatment:

Other: Counselling by the Trained Pharmacist

Counselling and Pictograms

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention group 2 consists of the subjects who receive the "counseling and pictogram intervention" in a study.

Treatment:

Other: Pictograms Cards and Counselling by the Trained Pharmacist