Trial of Lay-led Individualised Self-management Education for Adults With Asthma

NCT00129987 | Completed Results

• 1 other identifier: NHLICX3224
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 567
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Long term conditions often necessitate long term care. In many cases, giving control of their conditions to the patients themselves produces the best outcomes. Such patient education and the acquisition of self-management skills can be time consuming and the evidence suggests that the process is often not undertaken by doctors. Sometimes it is delegated to nursing colleagues, but all health professionals are in short supply. Patients carry credibility as a resource and this project is designed to determine, by means of a multi-centre randomised controlled trial, whether well trained lay educators can deliver training in self-management education to others with asthma, with outcomes equivalent to those achievable by a nurse.

Conditions

Asthma

Keywords

Asthma

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Number of Participants With Unscheduled Use of Healthcare

  Healthcare consists of one or other of hospital admission, emergency department attendance, unscheduled consultation with a GP

  1 year

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• Lung Function

  1 year

• Quality of Life Questionnaires

  1 year

• Number of Participants With Use of Asthma Medication

  1 year

Study Arms (2)

Nurse group

EXPERIMENTAL

An initial consultation of up to 45 min offered either by a practice based primary care nurse, followed by a second shorter face to face consultation and telephone follow-up for 1 year.

Behavioral: Self management education

Lay educator group

EXPERIMENTAL

An initial consultation of up to 45 min offered either by a lay educator, followed by a second shorter face to face consultation and telephone follow-up for 1 year.

Behavioral: Self management education

Interventions

Self management education BEHAVIORAL

Lay educator group; Nurse group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 90 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Adults step two therapy (BTS)
• Evidence of poorly controlled disease

You may not qualify if:

• Unable to benefit from self management education
• Other respiratory conditions other than asthma

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Imperial College London: lead
• BUPA Foundation: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

NHLI at Charing Cross Hospital Campus

London, W6 8RF, United Kingdom

Location

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MeSH Terms

Conditions

Asthma

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Bronchial Diseases; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Lung Diseases, Obstructive; Lung Diseases; Respiratory Hypersensitivity; Hypersensitivity, Immediate; Hypersensitivity; Immune System Diseases

Results Point of Contact

• Title: Martyn R Patridge
• Organization: Imperial College London

m.patridge@imperial.ac.uk

+44 (0)20 7594 7959

Study Officials

• Martyn R Partridge, MD FRCP

  NHLI Imperial College

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Publication Agreements

• PI is Sponsor Employee: Yes

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 11, 2005
• First Posted: August 12, 2005
• Study Start: November 1, 2003
• Primary Completion: July 1, 2006
• Study Completion: August 1, 2006
• Last Updated: January 29, 2020
• Results First Posted: January 29, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-01

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

GB (1)