NCT02451709

STudy of Asthma Adherence Reminders

Can Electronic Adherence Monitors With Feedback and Daily Reminders Improve Adherence and Health Outcomes in Children With Asthma?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (actual)
• Sponsor: Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To determine whether electronic adherence monitoring with feedback and reminder alarms can improve adherence and health outcomes in childhood asthma.

Detailed description

This study will investigate whether adding an electronic adherence monitor to inhaled steroids, and feeding this information back to patients and families can improve adherence and outcomes in childhood asthma. The devices will also sound twice daily reminder alarms to act as direct medication prompts. This intervention will be compared to a control group in which adherence is monitored, but with no feedback or alarms.

Conditions

• Childhood Asthma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Activated Smartinhaler or Smartturbo	Medication reminder alarms
OTHER	Feedback of adherence data	Review of adherence data with action planning
DEVICE	Deactivated Smartinhaler or Smartturbo	Alarms deactivated and no feedback

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-10-01
• Primary completion: 2015-09-01
• Completion: 2015-11-01
• First posted: 2015-05-22
• Last updated: 2015-11-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom