Mobile Phone Text for Optimizing Asthma Treatment

NCT ID: NCT00917410

Last Updated: 2009-06-10

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 244 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2007-11-30
• Study Completion Date: 2008-05-31

Brief Summary

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.

Conditions

Asthma

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

SMS intervention

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

SMS support

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The intervention consisted of sequences of SMS messages sent to the intervention group, each containing 2 or 3 monitoring questions and one reminder to take the preventive medication. The SMS sequence was as follows.

1. Remember to take your preventive asthma medication (sent at 8.00 am).

2. Were you awakened during the night due to your asthma? Answer YES or NO.

3. How many times have you taken your asthma attack medication during the last 24 hours? Answer a number.

4. What was your peak flow this morning? Answer a number (optional, depending on the participant's use of a spirometer prior to the study).

Interventions

SMS support

The intervention consisted of sequences of SMS messages sent to the intervention group, each containing 2 or 3 monitoring questions and one reminder to take the preventive medication. The SMS sequence was as follows.

1. Remember to take your preventive asthma medication (sent at 8.00 am).

2. Were you awakened during the night due to your asthma? Answer YES or NO.

3. How many times have you taken your asthma attack medication during the last 24 hours? Answer a number.

4. What was your peak flow this morning? Answer a number (optional, depending on the participant's use of a spirometer prior to the study).

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• asthmatics

Exclusion Criteria

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

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 45 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

MedicoMonitor Aps

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

The Ministry of Health and Prevention, Denmark

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of Copenhagen

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

University of Copenhagen

Principal Investigators

Claus Møldrup, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Copenhagen

Locations

University of Copenhagen

Copenhagen, , Denmark

Countries

Denmark

Other Identifiers

UC-SMS-01

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id