Health Literacy in People With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Clinical Trial

Official title:

Health Literacy. An Intervention on Organized Information and Health Care for People With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03216603
• Other study ID #: 298
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: December 2021
• Source: Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Health literacy refers to personal and relational factors affecting a person's ability to acquire, understand and use information about health and health services. In a need assessment study it was found that, the health services need to focus on health literacy factors in the follow up of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Thus, this project evaluate the effect a of a health literacy partnership health promotion intervention (hospital, municipalities, university) after discharge from hospital with the use of motivational interviewing and tailored follow-ups on re-admission, health literacy, self-management quality of life and cost in people with COPD compared with usual care.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 130
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Diagnosed with COPD,
• Above 18 years,
• Admitted to a medical department at the main intervention hospital, l
• Live in the sites belonging to the intervention hospital.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not diagnosed with COPD,
• Not above 18 years,
• Not admitted to a medical department at the main intervention hospital, and
• Not living in the sites belonging to the intervention hospital.
• Cognitive failure
• Patients that are investigated or treated for cancer

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Lung Diseases
• Lung Diseases, Obstructive
• Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Health literacy intervention group
In the health literacy intervention group all patients will receive self-management help using a motivating interviewing (MI) technique delivered by two MI and COPD trained nurses once a week for eight weeks after hospitalization. Subsequently, the contact between the patients and the nurses will be by follow up motivational telephone calls once a month or more if needed for four months (i.a a total of six months intervention period).

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Norway	Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital	Oslo

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital	Norwegian Extra Foundation for Health and Rehabilitation, University of Oslo

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Norway, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change of admissions	Number of re-admissions	Eight weeks, six months and one year
Secondary	Change of health literacy	Questionnaire	Eight weeks, six months and one year
Secondary	Change of disease specific quality of life	Questionnaire	Eight weeks, six months and one year
Secondary	Change of e-Health	Questionnaire	Eight weeks, six months and one year
Secondary	Change of physical function	Questionnaire	Eight weeks, six months and one year
Secondary	Change of self-management	Questionnaire	Eight weeks, six months and one year
Secondary	Change of psychological stress	Questionnaire	Eight weeks, six months and one year
Secondary	Change of self-efficacy	Questionnaire	Eight weeks, six months and one year