Breathlessness relief at home

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Breathlessness as a result of either COPD, bronchitis, asthma, bronchiectasis, emphysema, heart disease or cancer in the lungs; Respiratory

• Registration Number: ISRCTN80330546
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Hull

Brief Summary

2021 Protocol article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33816602/ (added 14/04/2021) 2022 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36415651/ (added 24/11/2022)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2019-11-11
• Study Completion: 2021-07-31
• Last Update Posted: 5 December 2022

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 42

Inclusion Criteria

Paramedic-participants:
1. From a participating ambulance stations
2. Able to provide informed consent
3. Willing to undergo training and to deliver intervention if so randomised
4. Willing to undergo training to participate in study measures and processes

Patient-participants:
1. In their normal home environment experiencing a breathlessness crisis and receiving a 999 ambulance response from participating paramedics
2. Who do not require immediate life-saving intervention/transfer to ED in the opinion of the attending paramedic
3. Call-out due to breathlessness
4. Who experience chronic breathlessness (defined as short of breath most days in the last 3 months or longer)
5. With a self-reported diagnosis of a cardiorespiratory disease (including lung cancer [primary or secondary], COPD, bronchitis, asthma, bronchiectasis, emphysema, heart disease
6. Able to give retrospective consent at the end of the paramedic call-out to use collected data for researcher use

Carer-participants:
If any of the patient-participants who consent to the interview have a carer, the carer will be invited to be part of the interview

Exclusion Criteria

Paramedic-participants:
1. Failure of inclusion criteria

Patient-participants:
1. Patients requiring urgent disease-directed intervention and transfer to the ED for acute pathology in the opinion of the attending paramedic
2. Patient does not have capacity to provide retrospective consent
3. Patient is currently enrolled on the trial or has previously participated

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified