Improving health outcomes for Jordanian outpatients with asthma
Not Applicable
Active, not recruiting
- Conditions
- AsthmaRespiratory - Asthma
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12610000159055
- Lead Sponsor
- Applied Science University
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Active, not recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 114
Inclusion Criteria
Inclusion criteria will include patients >=14 years of age, have a doctor-diagnosis of asthma, currently using inhaled corticosteroids with or without long acting B2 agonists via Turbuhaler or Diskus, and have been on the same asthma medication and dose for a minimum of one month prior to study enrolment.
Exclusion Criteria
Patients will be excluded from the study if they do not self-administer their medication, do not speak or understand Arabic, are not able to return for all visits, or are involved in another clinical study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The primary outcome measure is inhaler technique score (out of 9), assessed 3 months after the educational intervention (inhaler technique education).[This study is a 3 month single-blind randomised parallel group active-controlled study. Patients will be assessed at baseline and 3 months following baseline.]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Improvements in Asthma Control for patients from baseline to 3 months following baseline. This will be done by verbally explaining to the patient the steps to follow in their inhaler use, physically showing them how to complete each step in the technique, then placing a label with the steps of the technique on their inhalers, highlighting their initiall mistakes.[Patients will be assessed at baseline and 3 months following baseline.];Current asthma control status (to be assessed using the validated Asthma Control Test questionnaire) for patients using Turbuhaler, Accuhaler and MDI preventer inhalers in correlation to their inhaler technique score out of nine (which will be assessed based on their inhaler technique demonstration skills, where one point will be awarded for each step (9 steps checklists) demonstrated correctly by the patient.[At baseline]