Efficacy of Mobile Phone Short Message Service (SMS) Reminder and Consultation on Asthma Control

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

360 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2014-07-31

Study Completion Date

2014-12-31

Brief Summary

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Asthma is the disease being studied. The main objective of this study is to assess the clinical efficacy of mobile phone short message service (SMS) reminder and consultation on the self-management and outcomes of poorly controlled asthma which is first diagnosed in a time period of 3 months. The secondary objective is to explore the cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness of the proposed intervention.

Aims: The main aim of this study is to assist asthma patients to practice asthma self-management at home by sending reminders and responding to patients' consultations with mobile phone short message service (SMS), which will eventually help them to control their asthma, and prevent asthma exacerbation. Thus, the ultimate goal of this proposed study is to improve patient health outcome via enhancing patient-physician interaction through mobile phone short message service (SMS) that is low-cost and could be followed easily by the patients and their physicians.

The hypothesis is that asthma patients who receive weekly text message reminders to educate them and reinforce adherence will have better asthma outcome, such as asthma control, while the intervention integrating patient consultation and reminders by SMS improve asthma outcome even more. The investigators further hypothesize that these subjects under intervention will have an improvement in secondary measures including quality of life and patient satisfaction. The investigators also anticipate that such an approach in asthma management will be cost-effective.

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Detailed Description

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After examined for their eligibility and recruited into this study at outpatient service, all participants have their case records which contain their baseline data and receive the same standard asthma education(including basic knowledge about asthma, how to use their medicine, what to do when an asthma attack happens and when to come back for their disease review and so on). Each patient is given a paper asthma diary and a peak expiratory flow(PEF) measurer for free. In addition, they are told what intervention they will receive and revised face-to-face one month after the beginning of intervention. After the 3-month study period, when they return to the hospitals, they will return the asthma diaries, be asked to fill in the questionnaires and take pulmonary function tests.

Conditions

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Asthma

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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regular care group

receive regular care which contains filling a paper asthma diary daily.

Group Type OTHER

regular care

Intervention Type OTHER

patients are asked to fill in their paper asthma diary daily for 3 months

SMS reminder group

receive weekly mobile phone short message reminders for 3 months

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

SMS reminder

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

send weekly mobile phone short message reminders to the intervention group

regular care

Intervention Type OTHER

patients are asked to fill in their paper asthma diary daily for 3 months

SMS reminder and SMS consultation group

receive weekly mobile phone short message reminders and can consult asthma nurse by mobile phone short message when needed for 3 months

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

SMS reminder

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

send weekly mobile phone short message reminders to the intervention group

SMS consultation

Intervention Type OTHER

told patients to consult qualified asthma nurses by SMS when they need

regular care

Intervention Type OTHER

patients are asked to fill in their paper asthma diary daily for 3 months

Interventions

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SMS reminder

send weekly mobile phone short message reminders to the intervention group

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

SMS consultation

told patients to consult qualified asthma nurses by SMS when they need

Intervention Type OTHER

regular care

patients are asked to fill in their paper asthma diary daily for 3 months

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Physician diagnosed uncontrolled or partly-controlled asthma by Global Initiative for Asthma(GINA) standard.
2. At least 6 months asthma history.
3. Ownership of a mobile phone and currently using the text messaging service.
4. Age between 18 and 65 years old.
5. Willingness to participate in this study.
6. Willing to sign the written informed consent to take part in the study.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Inability to provide written informed consent or to fill in the paper asthma diary.
2. A history of smoking cigarettes for greater than ten pack years.
3. Other current or a history of severe comorbidity.
4. Being in other clinical trials.

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No