EmPhAsIS: Empowering Pharmacists in Asthma Management Through Interactive SMS
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 271
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Adherence to inhaled corticosteroid medication
研究概览
简要总结
Between 8% and 12% of Canadians suffer from asthma. Although there are effective and inexpensive treatments, adherence to asthma treatment is amongst the lowest for all chronic diseases.The purpose of this study is to determine whether enhancing the role of community pharmacists in asthma management using interactive short messaging service (SMS) with asthma patients is a cost-effective model that will improve adherence to inhaled corticosteroid medications compared to usual care.
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
- 14 Years 至 —（Child, Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •individuals who fill a (incident or prevalent) prescription for inhaled corticosteroids (either monotherapy or in combination inhaler with long-acting beta-agonists) who have been diagnosed by a doctor as having asthma
- •possessing a cell-phone with ability to send/receive text messages
- •residing in British Columbia (BC), Canada and planning to reside in BC for the next 12 months
- •registered with the medical services plan (MSP, the provincial insure of medically-required services) in the past 12 months, and planning to remain registered for the next 12 months
- •designated pharmacy being the main drugstore for patient
- •not participating in another interventional study
- •consent to participate in the study.
排除标准
- •Unable to communicate in English
- •Under 14 years of age
研究组 & 干预措施
Interactive SMS
Intervention with interactive SMS (text messaging) by which patients are asked to disclose their level of agreement with the following statement "I follow my asthma medication plan" and pharmacist follow-up
干预措施: Interactive SMS (Other)
Usual care
Pharmacist conducted patient education, counseling and action-plan
干预措施: Usual care (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Adherence to inhaled corticosteroid medication
时间窗: 12 months
Adherence assessed by medication possession ratio
次要结局
- Asthma control(12 months)
- Quality of life measured by the Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire(12 months)
- Health care resource utilization(12 months)
- Use of reliever medication for acute asthma attacks(12 months)
- Asthma control(Baseline)
- Asthma control(6 months)
- Quality of life measured by the Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire(Baseline)
- Quality of life measured by the Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire(3 months)
研究者
Mary De Vera
Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia