Whether a one day educational programme on Asthma helps to improve doctors ability to diagnose and treat Asthma correctly.
Not Applicable
Suspended
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2013/08/003907
- Lead Sponsor
- International Primary Care Respiratory Group
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Suspended
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 12
Inclusion Criteria
•Qualified primary care practitioners. MBBS, MD (General Medicine), DNB (Med), MD (Pediatrics), DNB (Pediatrics), MBBS (DCh)
•In private practice for > 2 years
•Having independent private clinic
•Doctors not managing Asthma according to the GINA guidelines.
•Willing to participate in the study after informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria
•Doctors having specialized practice including those are not qualified specialists but who are inclined towards a certain specialty like Hypertension, Diabetes, Ischemic Heart Disease, Respiratory etc.
•Doctors practicing in tertiary care centers
•Doctors practicing in government sector.
•Not willing to participate in the study.
•Doctors associated with teaching institutes.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Impact of the CHAMPS programme on the knowledge and practice of doctorsTimepoint: â?¢Recruitment and informed consent procedure: 2 months <br/ ><br>â?¢Pre interventional prescription monitoring: 1 month <br/ ><br>â?¢CHAMPS: 1 day <br/ ><br>â?¢Post interventional prescription monitoring: 1 month <br/ ><br>â?¢Administration of case studies at the end of 1 month post training. <br/ ><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Qualitative analysis of the impact of the CHAMPS programme whether complete or partial acceptance and implementation of the GINA guidelines. If partial then what are the constraints related to the training programme or practical constraints for not implementing the guidelines.Timepoint: �Administration of qualitative questionnaire by the end of 1½ months post training. <br/ ><br>�Qualitative data entry, analysis and report writing: 2 months <br/ ><br>