Evaluation of Decisional Conflict and Needs Assessment in Asthma Management

Asthma Clinical Trial

Official title:

Decisional Conflict and Needs Assessment in Shared Decision Making in Asthma Management

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01520883
• Other study ID #: CER 20646
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: October 4, 2011
• Last updated: May 24, 2013
• Start date: March 2011
• Est. completion date: December 2012

Study information

• Verified date: May 2013
• Source: Laval University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Canada: Ethics Review Committee
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Many patients suffering from asthma are not compliant to their treatment and consequently, are not well controlled. Shared decision making intervention has shown an improvement in the outcome of patients with chronic disease. The aim of this study is to evaluate decisional conflict and to assess decisional needs of adults with asthma.

Description:

Asthmatic patients will be recruited and asked to fill a decisional conflict scale.

Patients, asthma educators and physicians will also be recruited to fill a needs assessment questionnaire about decisions taken by asthmatics.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 50
• Est. completion date: December 2012
• Est. primary completion date: April 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• 18-65 years

• diagnosed asthma

Exclusion Criteria:

• received asthma education in the past 2 years

Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Asthma

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	Institut Universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec	Québec	Quebec

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Laval University	AllerGen NCE Inc., Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, CHU de Québec

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Measuring Decisional Conflict with a valid Decisional Conflict Scale	To measure the level of decisional conflict, subjects were asked to fill out a decisional conflict scale on asthma management which was developed by O'Connor adapted for our study. This questionnaire consisted of 16 questions. The answers used a Likert scale ranged from 1 - strongly agree to 5 - strongly disagree.	6 month	No