NCT03277664

Electronic Monitoring Combined With Weekly Feedback and Reminders

The Effect of Electronic Monitoring Combined With Weekly Feedback and Reminders on Adherence to Inhaled Corticosteroids in Infants and Younger Children With Asthma: a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 96 (actual)
• Sponsor: Shanghai Children's Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Months – 3 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A total of 96 recruited children (aged 6 months to 3 years) with mild or moderate persistent asthma who were on regular inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) were randomly allocated to receive electronic monitoring combined with instant messaging software -based weekly feeding back adherence and reminders to keep taking the ICS (intervention group) and to receive electronic monitoring only (control group). The device-monitored adherence rates and caregiver-reported adherence rates were analyzed.

Conditions

• Asthma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	intervention group	All the device-monitored adherence data from the previous week were downloaded from the background database and calculated by a qualified asthma nurse. Through free IMS (WeChat; Tencent, Shenzhen, CHN) available on mobile, the nurse offered feedback to the caregivers weekly according to the adherence rate and reminded them to keep taking the ICS. Caregivers were asked monthly "Has our child inhaled the medicine according to the doctor's instructions?" and "How about the frequency?" by telephone.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-09-01
• Primary completion: 2017-01-31
• Completion: 2017-01-31
• First posted: 2017-09-11
• Last updated: 2019-11-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China