Nurse-Led Telemonitoring Programme in Asthmatic Outpatients: a Randomized Controlled Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 4 期
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 112
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Asthma-specific quality of life at one year.
研究概览
简要总结
The objective of this study was to investigate if a nurse-led telemonitoring programme is effective and cost-effective in asthmatic outpatients, aged seven years and older.
详细描述
At the present day asthma is one of the most common chronic illnesses worldwide and the prevalence is still increasing. Asthma can be treated and controlled with guidance of health care professionals, and self-monitoring is an important aspect in this control.
Respiratory nurses have become common caregivers in the treatment and control of asthma. Advances in information and communication technology have created the potential to monitor the asthma status of patients at a distance, named telemonitoring. These two developments come together in nurse-led telemonitoring programmes. Lung function tests, from which the peak expiratory flow (PEF) is the most commonly used, are recorded into an electronic monitor. By transferring monitor data to a central database a nurse can continuously supervise the disease status of individual patients. The use of stepwise protocols can enable nurses to independently adjust the medication by one step.
Design: Randomized controlled trial comparing a nurse-led telemonitoring programme versus regular care in asthmatic outpatients aged 7 years and older.
Primary outcome parameter: asthma-specific quality of life. Secondary outcome parameters: symptoms, generic quality of life, direct and indirect costs, satisfaction.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Health Services Research
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 7 Years 至 —（Child, Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •7 years or older
- •Asthma severity of stage I - III as described in the GINA guidelines
- •Must be competent to use an asthma monitor
- •Must possess a household phone connection
排除标准
- •Respiratory co-morbidity
结局指标
主要结局
Asthma-specific quality of life at one year.
次要结局
- Asthma symptoms at one year
- generic quality of life at one year
- direct and indirect costs during one year
- satisfaction with and feasibility of the intervention at one year.