Smartphone-based Self-management in COPD Patients: A Needs Assessment Survey

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Clinical Trial

Official title:

A Smartphone-based Self-management Support Program for Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - A Needs Assessment Survey

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05151198
• Other study ID #: UW21-532-1
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: December 1, 2021
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: April 2022
• Source: The University of Hong Kong
• Contact: Agnes YK Lai, PhD
• Phone: 852-3917-6328
• Email: agneslai[@]hku.hk
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

COPD patients often experience multiple symptoms (e.g. dyspnea, cough, and deteriorating quality of life) and have imposed a substantial economic and social burden on health care.

The current proposal is to explore the information needs of COPD patients and to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a smartphone-based instant messaging self-management support program to improve the quality of life in patients with COPD.

Description:

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the number 3 killer globally by 2020. COPD patients often experience multiple symptoms (e.g. dyspnea, cough, and deteriorating quality of life) and have imposed a substantial economic and social burden on health care.

Current policy for the prevention and management of long-term conditions focuses on efforts to prevent the onset or slow progression of disease early in the disease trajectory. This prevention paradigm has only recently been adopted for COPD. Systematic reviews have shown self-management support for patients with COPD is effective in improving health-related quality of life and in reducing hospital admissions, but the evidence comes largely from patients with moderate or severe disease and is predominantly recruited from secondary care. Simple and systematic strategies are needed to improve out-of-hospital support and management for people living with COPD.

An instant messaging smartphone app, which allows texts, audio, pictures and video messages to be shared in chat groups, is already available to and is the most popular in the Hong Kong general public. Mobile instant messaging can be conducted through a daily use device to increase access and efficacy, which has been suggested as a feasible approach to delivering an intervention with positive effects on health behaviours and outcomes. Text messaging via mobile phones has been shown to be effective in helping promote lifestyle change in diabetes self-management, weight loss, physical activity, smoking cessation and medication adherence with quantitative and qualitative evidence. However, we have not found messaging intervention that was applied in people with COPD, except an ongoing study of using instant text message support for patients with chronic respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.

Hence, the current proposal is to use a quantitative survey and qualitative interview exploring the information needs of COPD patients and evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of a smartphone-based instant messaging self-management support program to improve the quality of life in patients with COPD.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 50
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

• Aged 18 years and above

• Diagnosis with COPD

• Able to speak and read Chinese

• Able to complete the self-administered questionnaire

• Mental, cognitive and physically fit determined by the clinician or responsible investigator

• Signed informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Serious active infection

• Severe respiratory insufficiency

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

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

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Hong Kong	Queen Mary Hospital	Hong Kong

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
The University of Hong Kong

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Hong Kong, 

References & Publications (4)

Buttery SC, Zysman M, Vikjord SAA, Hopkinson NS, Jenkins C, Vanfleteren LEGW. Contemporary perspectives in COPD: Patient burden, the role of gender and trajectories of multimorbidity. Respirology. 2021 May;26(5):419-441. doi: 10.1111/resp.14032. Epub 2021 Mar 9. — View Citation

Hall AK, Cole-Lewis H, Bernhardt JM. Mobile text messaging for health: a systematic review of reviews. Annu Rev Public Health. 2015 Mar 18;36:393-415. doi: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031914-122855. Review. — View Citation

Jolly K, Sidhu MS, Hewitt CA, Coventry PA, Daley A, Jordan R, Heneghan C, Singh S, Ives N, Adab P, Jowett S, Varghese J, Nunan D, Ahmed K, Dowson L, Fitzmaurice D. Self management of patients with mild COPD in primary care: randomised controlled trial. BMJ. 2018 Jun 13;361:k2241. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k2241. — View Citation

Redfern J, Hyun K, Singleton A, Hafiz N, Raeside R, Spencer L, Carr B, Caterson I, Cullen J, Ferry C, Santo K, Hayes A, Leung RWM, Raadsma S, Swinbourne J, Cho JG, King M, Roberts M, Kok C, Jenkins C, Chow C. ITM support for patients with chronic respiratory and cardiovascular diseases: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 2019 Mar 1;9(3):e023863. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023863. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Information and support needs	Information preferences and needs of support measured by outcome-based questions	Baseline
Secondary	Patient Activation	Knowledge, skills and confidence in self-management measured by a 13-item Patient Activation Measure	Baseline
Secondary	Technological literacy	Knowledge and confidence in using instant messaging measured by outcome-based questions	Baseline
Secondary	Attitude towards smartphone-based intervention	Attitude towards smartphone-based intervention measured by outcome-based questions	Baseline

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