NCT01514760

A Pilot and Feasibility Study of Mobile-Based Asthma Action Plans

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 22 (actual)
• Sponsor: Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Investigators from University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Pediatrics and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Center for Distance Health will collaborate to develop a mobile-based Asthma Action Plan application to improve asthma self-management skills specifically targeting adolescents. The investigators hypothesize that an interactive, mobile-based asthma action plan will be a feasible means of reinforcing long-term asthma management guidelines as well as delivering acute management instructions to adolescents with asthma.

Detailed description

A written Asthma Action Plan from a healthcare provider is one of the key features of asthma self-management recommended by the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program asthma guidelines; guidelines-based asthma care has not yet fully translated to the community despite the fact that National Asthma Education and Prevention Program released the first set of national guidelines nearly 2 decades ago. Previous reports have proven that patients with an Asthma Action Plan have better outcomes including fewer acute healthcare utilization visits, fewer days missed from school, and improved symptoms scores compared to patients without an Asthma Action Plan. Recently, mobile-based phone applications and music file (MPEG layer 3)(MP3) players have been utilized in the management of chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes to provide medication reminders and to provide alternatives to paper dairies for logging symptoms or other health-related data such as peak flow readings or blood glucose readings. We propose to design an application that will fully meet the recommended individualized Asthma Action Plan treatment plan as recommended by national guidelines and will also provide participants with medication reminders, education tips, and data logging/tracking capabilities.

Conditions

• Asthma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Mobile-based Asthma Action Plan	The participant will be distributed a mobile phone (iPhone or Android) at the time of consent. The mobile-based Asthma Action Plan application will be provided on the mobile device. The mobile phone based application features will include ambulatory peak flow and asthma symptoms diary, individualized treatment plan for routine care and during episodes of acute asthma symptoms, and education components to reinforce asthma self-management concepts. Participants will receive 3 daily messages from the Asthma Action Plan mobile application. A fourth "rotating" message will be sent twice weekly.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-06-01
• Primary completion: 2012-10-01
• Completion: 2013-10-01
• First posted: 2012-01-23
• Last updated: 2017-10-11
• Results posted: 2016-02-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States