Educational Interventions for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Self-management in Ethno-cultural Communities

NCT ID: NCT01474707

Last Updated: 2017-11-28

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

120 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2011-01-31

Study Completion Date

2015-01-31

Brief Summary

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Goal: The main goal of this study is to develop and validate educational materials that aim to improve self-management knowledge and practices about COPD among patients in Mandarin and Cantonese-speaking communities in the Greater Vancouver Area (GVA).

Objectives: "1." To assess the current landscape of COPD beliefs, perceptions and practices, as well as health literacy as it relates to Chinese Mandarin and Cantonese-speaking patients; "2." To develop effective partnerships within primary care physicians serving Chinese newcomers in the GVA' "3." To conduct focus group sessions with collaborative primary care physicians to identify common factors that contribute to under service and access barriers among patients in the target communities; "4." To assess the effectiveness of the educational materials on patients' beliefs, perceptions, practices, and health literacy related to COPD control and self-management; and "5." To improve the capacity of physicians and allied health workers in primary care settings in educating patients and their families about self-management of COPD.

The implementation of the project will include the following phases: "1." Build and strengthen established partnerships with primary care practices serving newcomers in GVA; "2." Conduct an environmental scan and needs assessment (literature review, interviews and focus groups with community members and key-informants); "3." Development of story scripts, video clips and other educational materials, and relevant measurement tools; "4." Application of the video clips and other educational materials to test their effectiveness on health literacy, beliefs, and knowledge among COPD patients from the target communities; and "5." Evaluation of the usefulness of videos and other educational materials, and the project's process and outcomes.

Detailed Description

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The main aim of this project is to address our knowledge gap about COPD management, access problems, and differences in environmental exposure among newcomers in Canada: by engaging key stakeholders, fostering dialogue, gathering baseline data, and generating knowledge on how improved access to culturally and linguistically appropriate educational materials can enhance awareness and practices about COPD control and self-management through interventional study, thereby improving the health status of the target populations. We plan to document: "1." what are the cultural imperatives that are likely to mediate ethnic Chinese patients to manage COPD? "2." to what extent does the Canadian health care system's environment influence newcomers response to COPD? Our aim is to examine the belief system and health practices among target communities that may influence treatment and management of COPD.

This research will make theoretical, methodological and applied research contributions. It will establish strong community - primary care provider and academic connections for the development of the proposed educational materials, measurement tools, and framework. Community participation will be included throughout the development of this study, enhancing the potential of acquiring new knowledge about cultural and traditional practices of the sample population.

Our approach will enable primary health care providers, knowledge users, and policy makers to design appropriate educational intervention initiatives targeted to diverse ethnic minority groups in relation to COPD. We foresee findings that provide not only better ways to measure health literacy pertaining to COPD in our target populations, but that will also help develop materials and measures that can be applied to other populations in BC and the rest of Canada. We expect that the participatory approach used in this study will contribute to capacity building, improving newcomers' ability to access and use relevant COPD information (in terms of prevention, control and management) and to transfer and share the information learned with other members of the target communities. The proposed community consultation will also help us identify culturally appropriate communication mode(s) to deliver health information messages and determine practical adult learning approaches applicable to diverse communities in Canada.

Conditions

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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Keywords

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COPD Educational materials Cultural background Instructional videos Patient education handouts Lung age

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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Group one

Group1 will view the knowledge-based video only

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Group one

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Group 1 will view the knowledge-based video only

Group two

Group two will view the motivational video only

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Group two

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Group two will view the motivational video only

Group three

Group three will view both knowledge-based and motivational videos

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Group three

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Group three will view both knowledge-based and motivational videos

Group four

Group four will view the printed educational pamphlet and will not view either video

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Group four

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Group four will view the printed educational pamphlet and will not view either video

Interventions

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Group one

Group 1 will view the knowledge-based video only

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Group two

Group two will view the motivational video only

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Group three

Group three will view both knowledge-based and motivational videos

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Group four

Group four will view the printed educational pamphlet and will not view either video

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* A physician diagnosed COPD patients
* Be at least 21 years old
* Speaks Mandarin or Cantonese
* Immigrated to Canada in the past 15 years from mainland China or Hong Kong

Exclusion Criteria

* Self-reported patients
* Person under 21 years old
* Person who lives in a nursing home
* Unwilling to participate in the study
Minimum Eligible Age

21 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Vancouver Coastal Health

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role collaborator

Main Line Health

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Provincial Health Services Authority

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Vancouver Foundation

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of British Columbia

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Mark Fitzgerald

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Mark J FitzGerald, M.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of British Columbia

Locations

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Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Site Status

University of British Columbia - Vancouver Coastal Health

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Site Status

Countries

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Canada

References

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Poureslami I, Kwan S, Lam S, Khan NA, FitzGerald JM. Assessing the effect of culturally specific audiovisual educational interventions on attaining self-management skills for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Mandarin- and Cantonese-speaking patients: a randomized controlled trial. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis. 2016 Aug 3;11:1811-22. doi: 10.2147/COPD.S105408. eCollection 2016.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 27536093 (View on PubMed)

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Other Identifiers

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H09-02069

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id