NCT04540562

Evaluating a Mobile Self-management Application for Patients With COPD Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Evaluating the Feasibility of a Mobile Self-management Application for Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 39 (actual)
• Sponsor: Rijnstate Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The objective of the study is to evaluate the effects of a mobile self-management app in clinical practice for recently discharged COPD patients on application use, self-management, anxiety and depression, expectations and experiences, patients' and health care professionals' satisfaction and hospital readmissions.

Detailed description

Usability testing techniques were used to receive feedback on a prototype of the app, before starting the feasibility study. Patients were recruited from a large teaching hospital. The COPD app provided patients with an 8 week self-management program. The application had three views: timeline, information page, and contact page. The start date was each patients' date of discharge. The timeline was classified in 8 weeks, and each week included the lung exacerbation plan, daily and extra medication, information and education and questionnaires. The first week also included a video of a pulmonologist explaining the purpose of the app and additional information about the functionalities of the COPD app. The timeline consisted of the lung exacerbation action plan, medication overview, weekly questionnaires and monitoring, and consultations (video consultation after 4 weeks and face-to-face consultation after 8 weeks).

Conditions

• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	COPD app	The COPD app consisted of an 8 week self-management program. The app had three views: timeline, information page, and contact page. The timeline was classified in 8 weeks, and each week included the lung exacerbation plan, daily and extra medication, information and education and questionnaires. The first week also included a video of a pulmonologist explaining the purpose of the app and additional information about the functionalities of the COPD app. A video consultation was planned after after 4 weeks and a face-to-face consultation after 8 weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-11-22
• Primary completion: 2019-04-15
• Completion: 2020-04-25
• First posted: 2020-09-07
• Last updated: 2020-09-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Netherlands