NCT00197964

A Randomized Trial to Improve Quality of Life Outcomes in Asthma Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 180 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital for Special Surgery, New York · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Among 180 patients with moderate asthma, the specific aim of this randomized trial is to assess the effectiveness of an intervention involving education, enhancement of self-efficacy, and asthma social support in preventing deterioration in functional status over two years.

Detailed description

The goals of this study are to develop and implement a multi-component intervention to improve quality of life and decrease urgent resource utilization in adult asthma patients followed in a primary care practice. Specifically, the intervention involves a two-component self-directed self-management workbook. The first component focuses on increasing knowledge by providing patients with factual information about asthma and self-management. The second component focuses on asthma self-efficacy using case vignettes and making a contract to adopt a behavior to improve asthma. Asthma-related social support is achieved through interval telephone contact.

Conditions

• Asthma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Enhance asthma knowledge, self-efficacy, social support

Timeline

• Start date: 2001-08-01
• Primary completion: 2005-04-01
• Completion: 2005-04-01
• First posted: 2005-09-20
• Last updated: 2011-11-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States