NCT03420235

Home Monitoring in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis; Improving Use of Anti-fibrotic Medication and Quality of Life

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (actual)
• Sponsor: Erasmus Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In this study it will be investigate whether a home monitoring program improves disease-specific health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) through appropriate medication use and subsequently results in better objective and subjective outcomes.

Detailed description

IPF is a chronic disease with progressive scarring of the lung tissue (fibrosis), resulting in a poor prognosis and a devastating impact on the lives of patients and their families. Progressive shortness of breath, cough and fatigue are major factors influencing health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in patients with IPF. Recently two anti-fibrotic drugs became available that slow down disease progression. The availability of effective drugs for this devastating disease has importantly changed daily care and research in IPF. Currently, one of the major challenges in daily IPF care is the evaluation of how individual patients objectively and subjectively experience treatment and benefit from treatment. The use of information communication technology in health care, also named e-health, is a promising solution to improve the quality of care. E-health allows remote exchange of data between patients and health care professionals which enables monitoring, research and management of long term conditions. Also communication between patients and physicians, and physicians mutually, becomes more accessible. This creates an opportunity for earlier intervention by health care professionals, which may prevent a hospital admission. This might improve quality of life and reduce costs. Patients easily get access to up-to-date and tailored information, in an interactive way. By providing these tools, patients may better understand their health conditions and become actively involved in management of their own health care, which may lead to a better health status. An 'internet tool' for patients with IPF have been developed, providing information and enabling them to keep track of their own symptoms, HRQOL scores, medication use and lung function results. In this study it will be investigated whether a home monitoring program improves disease-specific HRQOL for IPF patients through appropriate medication use and subsequently results in better objective and subjective outcomes.

Conditions

• Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Home monitoring program	The home monitoring program consists of 1) the use of an interactive internet tool to coach patients and enhance self-management 2) home-based pulmonary function testing with a handheld spirometer and 3) recording of patient-reported outcomes (PROs).

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-01-09
• Primary completion: 2019-08-26
• Completion: 2019-08-26
• First posted: 2018-02-05
• Last updated: 2020-01-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Netherlands