Evaluation of a Combined Strategy Addressed to Practitioners and COPD Patients: Information Feed-back and Health Education, to Improve Clinical Control and Quality of Life
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 801
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Quality of life (Saint George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ)
研究概览
简要总结
Main objective:
Evaluate the effectiveness of a combined strategy addressed to health care workers and patients, in relation to improving clinical control and patient's quality of life.It includes a feed-back about the health status of the patients, an education plan addressed to practitioners based in a CPG and in health education
详细描述
Method/design:
Design: Multicenter intervention study(before-after), quasi-experimental, prospective, with a control group and 12 month's follow-up
Setting: 21 primary Health Care Centres in Barcelona (Spain)
Sample: 801 patients (≥ 40 years old) with a register of COPD diagnostic,with one visit motivated by COPD during 2003 and that accept to participate at the study, after having read and signed the informed consent.
Intervention: The program includes giving clinical results to the health care workers(doctor and nurse), from the medical records and interview. A training course (20h)that deals with aspects related to GPC, motivational interview and health education (tobacco, inhalers, alimentation, exercise and physiotherapy).
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 40 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Patients of both genders aged ≥40 years of age, recorded as having COPD, receiving attention in the PCC or at home, who have had at least one clinical visit for COPD management, and who provide written informed consent to participation in the study.
排除标准
- •Patients who have any psychiatric disturbances, severe visual or auditory impairment that would impede compliance with the study protocol.
- •Patients with asthma, tuberculosis or other chronic respiratory pathologies, or any end-stage disease, or not having access to a telephone.
结局指标
主要结局
Quality of life (Saint George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ)
时间窗: Beginning of the intervention and at the end (12 months after)
次要结局
- Dyspnea, exacerbations and hospital admissions(Beginning of the intervention and at the end (12 months after))