NCT02203266

Teaching Inhaler Use With the INCA Device in a Community Pharmacy Setting

A Randomised, Parallel-group, Multi-centre Trial Using a Novel INCA Tracker Device to Measure and Monitor Compliance and Technique of Seretide Diskus Inhaler in a Community Pharmacy Setting

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 152 (actual)
• Sponsor: Beaumont Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this trial is to discover whether providing feedback to patients from a device that records when and how well a patient uses a Seretide Diskus inhaler will lead to: * Improved compliance with prescribed inhaler use * Improved technique of inhaler use * A reduction in respiratory health related outcomes caused by poor inhaler compliance and usage. * An improvement in patient quality of life scores

Conditions

• Asthma
• Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Feedback	Feedback on the patient's own inhaler use, with personalized information on the patients technique and timing of use of the diskus inhaler as recorded on the INCA device will be provided to patients in the feedback group after 1,2 and 6 months.
BEHAVIORAL	Education	Feedback on the patient's own inhaler technique as observed by pharmacist and education to support best use will be provided to patients in the demonstration group after 1,2 and 6 months.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-02-01
• Primary completion: 2016-12-01
• Completion: 2017-01-01
• First posted: 2014-07-29
• Last updated: 2019-07-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Ireland