NCT04691557

Mobile Health Application for Adolescents With Asthma

Evaluation of the Effectiveness of User-focused Mobile Health Application on Asthma Control and Self-efficacy in Adolescents With Asthma: a Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 54 (actual)
• Sponsor: Akdeniz University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Mobile health applications (mHealth apps) are an opportunity offered by developing technology which in widely used among youths. The evidence regarding mHealth apps suggests that the apps can be safer and more feasible if are developed by healthcare team. Healthcare professionals have a major role to play in developing mHealth apps of good interventions.

Detailed description

This study aims at developing the mHealth application (YoungAsthma) and evaluating the effectiveness of YoungAsthma app on the mean score of the asthma control test and self-efficacy scale in adolescents with asthma. This study is a self-efficacy theory-based, 4-week, randomized parallel group study. Participants will be randomized to either the intervention or control group in a 1:1 ratio. Adolescents will be randomly allocated to intervention (YoungAsthma which is a user-focused mHealth app) or control group (Usual care). The study protocol is conducted in accord with the Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials (SPIRIT 2013 Statement) (Chan et al., 2013), the RCT is perform by the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) (Moher et al., 2010) and the mHealth app is identified according to the mERA guideline (Agarwal et al., 2016).

Conditions

• Adolescent
• Nursing Care
• Asthma in Children
• Self Efficacy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Mobile Health Application	YoungAsthma is a web-based mobile health app has been developing user-focused for adolescents with asthma and evidence-based by the research team. It is the integrated version of the knowledge content to software that enables effective management of asthma by strengthening the interaction between adolescents and healthcare professionals.
OTHER	Usual Care	Adolescents in the control group, an asthma training covering also individualized specific conditions is provided by specialist training nurse for 15-30 minutes in the nursing room of the outpatient clinic for all children. In this nursing intervention that is only one-off and consist face-to-face training with adolescents video and visual materials included in the routine of the outpatient clinic for the use of devices and drugs are used.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-12-01
• Primary completion: 2022-04-29
• Completion: 2022-04-29
• First posted: 2020-12-31
• Last updated: 2023-10-17

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)