Evaluation of Decisional Conflict and Needs Assessment in Asthma Management

Completed

• Conditions: Asthma

• Registration Number: NCT01520883
• Lead Sponsor: Laval University

Brief Summary

Many patients suffering from asthma are not compliant to their treatment and consequently, are not well controlled. Shared decision making intervention has shown an improvement in the outcome of patients with chronic disease. The aim of this study is to evaluate decisional conflict and to assess decisional needs of adults with asthma.

Detailed Description

Asthmatic patients will be recruited and asked to fill a decisional conflict scale.

Patients, asthma educators and physicians will also be recruited to fill a needs assessment questionnaire about decisions taken by asthmatics.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2011-03
• Study First Submitted: 2011-10-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-01-25
• Study First Posted: 2012-01-30
• Primary Completion: 2012-04
• Study Completion: 2012-12
• Status Verified: 2013-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2013-05-24
• Last Update Posted: 2013-05-27

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 50

Inclusion Criteria

• 18-65 years
• diagnosed asthma

Exclusion Criteria

• received asthma education in the past 2 years

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Measuring Decisional Conflict with a valid Decisional Conflict Scale	6 month	To measure the level of decisional conflict, subjects were asked to fill out a decisional conflict scale on asthma management which was developed by O'Connor adapted for our study. This questionnaire consisted of 16 questions. The answers used a Likert scale ranged from 1 - strongly agree to 5 - strongly disagree.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Institut Universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec; 🇨🇦 Québec, Quebec, Canada