Mobile Phone Text for Optimizing Asthma Treatment

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Asthma
• Interventions: Behavioral: SMS support

• Registration Number: NCT00917410
• Lead Sponsor: University of Copenhagen

Brief Summary

The study aims at providing information on how the Short Message Service (SMS) tool influences self-management in asthma patients and to assess the resulting health related effect. A wide range of models and theories exist in the compliance area, such as technical models, communication models, cognitive models and self-management models and theories. The use of some of these theories and models will serve as theoretical and explanatory tools for studying how and why the SMS tool influences the patient's self-management.

Objective:

The objective of this study is to assess the health-related effects of a SMS compliance and monitoring system for optimized asthma treatment in a controlled trial setting.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2007-11
• Primary Completion: 2008-05
• Study Completion: 2008-05
• Status Verified: 2009-06
• Study First Submitted: 2009-06-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2009-06-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2009-06-09
• Study First Posted: 2009-06-10
• Last Update Posted: 2009-06-10

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 244

Inclusion Criteria

• asthmatics

Exclusion Criteria

• below 18 and above 45
• COPD patients
• no mobile phone
• not using the prescribed asthma inhalation medication

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
SMS intervention	SMS support	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Asthma control test
EQ-5D	0, 45, 90 days
Use of health services	0, 45, 90 days
Use of preventive medicine	0, 45, 90 days

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Copenhagen; 🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Denmark