Impact of a Mobile Phone and Educational Intervention

NCT06878898 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 16-061
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 29
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The purpose of this pilot study was to:

1. 1.partner with African American churches to increase awareness of COPD.
2. 2.use a community-based approach to facilitate early detection of COPD in the church setting. The pre-screening with a paper-based tool and spirometry testing were provided at community health fairs at the churches.
3. 3.determine the impact of a combined intervention (education and mobile phone/text messages) on health related-related quality of life and health behaviors of African Americans with asthma and COPD.

Conditions

Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive; Asthma COPD

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• Disease Knowledge: Knowledge and Management Questionnaire

  Disease Knowledge: A knowledge questionnaire on basic disease concepts and management practices

  Baseline, 3 months after ACOPD workshop, 9-months post-ACOPD workshop

• Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in participants with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

  Health-related quality of life: The validated Clinical COPD Questionnaire used to measure HRQOL. The scores range from 0 to 6, higher values indicate poorer health status, and a change in score \>0.4 is considered clinically important.

  Baseline, 3 months after ACOPD workshop, 9-months post-ACOPD workshop

• Health-related quality of life in participants with Asthma

  Health-related quality of life at baseline: The validated 15-item mini-Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (mAQLQ) used to measure HRQOL. The scores range from 1-7, higher scores indicate better health status, and a change in score \>0.5 is considered clinically important.

  Baseline, 3 months after ACOPD workshop, 9-months post-ACOPD workshop

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Respiratory management behaviors

  Baseline, 3 months after ACOPD workshop, 9-months post-ACOPD workshop

• Self-efficacy

  Baseline, 3 months after ACOPD workshop, 9-months post-ACOPD workshop

Study Arms (2)

Education (Asthma COPD Workshop) and mobile phone

EXPERIMENTAL

The ACOPD Workshop comprised of 1-hour educational sessions on basic disease knowledge (one session) and management practices (two sessions). Participants were given: * devices and items to encourage behavioral change related to the intervention i.e., pedometers, pocket calendars (tracking physical activity) and pill boxes (medication adherence) * handouts on asthma, COPD developed based on the ACOPD Workshop content asthma and COPD action plan templates from the American Lung Association (ALA) and Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAAF) to encourage dialogue with their healthcare provider, and * a certificate of completion for those that attended all three sessions. * The mobile text messaging provided informational support to reinforce the importance of the core health behaviors presented in the educational sessions. Participants in the intervention arm received text messages once per day over four weeks.

Behavioral: Education and mobile phone text-messaging

Education only

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

The ACOPD Workshop comprised of 1-hour educational sessions on basic disease knowledge (one session) and management practices (two sessions) i.e., three core health behaviors (nutrition, physical activity, and avoiding triggers) recommended for proper management of asthma and COPD. Participants were given: * devices and items to encourage behavioral change related to the intervention i.e., pedometers, pocket calendars (tracking physical activity) and pill boxes (medication adherence) * handouts on asthma, COPD developed based on the ACOPD Workshop content * asthma and COPD action plan templates from the American Lung Association (ALA) and Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAAF) to encourage dialogue with their healthcare provider, and * a certificate of completion for those that attended all three sessions.

Other: Education only

Interventions

Education and mobile phone text-messaging BEHAVIORAL

The investigators piloted a knowledge and mobile text-messaging intervention using a prospective group design, allocating 14 (asthma=8; COPD=6) and 15 (asthma=9; COPD=6) participants to control and intervention groups respectively, after stratifying by type of disease.

Education (Asthma COPD Workshop) and mobile phone

Education only OTHER

Participants in the control group only received the educational intervention.

Education only

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Eligible participants for the study were African American adults of 18 years and above.
• Participants had to have reported physician diagnosed (on the survey distributed at the church) or spirometry diagnosed (at the community health fair) asthma or COPD, access to a text-messaging enabled mobile phone, and provision of signed informed consent.

You may not qualify if:

• Individuals unwilling to participate in the study and patients with other chronic lung diseases, terminal, or comorbid illnesses more severe in nature than asthma or COPD (i.e., heart disease and cancer) were excluded from the study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Kent State University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Kent State University

Kent, Ohio, 44242, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

Interventions

Educational Status

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Lung Diseases, Obstructive; Lung Diseases; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Chronic Disease; Disease Attributes; Pathologic Processes; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Socioeconomic Factors; Population Characteristics

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SCREENING
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor and Interim Associate Dean

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 1, 2023
• First Posted: March 17, 2025
• Study Start: September 1, 2016
• Primary Completion: April 1, 2017
• Study Completion: April 1, 2017
• Last Updated: March 17, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)