Efficacy of Mobile Phone Short Message Service (SMS) Reminder and Consultation on Asthma Control

Summary

Asthma is the disease being studied. The main objective of this study is to assess the clinical efficacy of mobile phone short message service (SMS) reminder and consultation on the self-management and outcomes of poorly controlled asthma which is first diagnosed in a time period of 3 months. The secondary objective is to explore the cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness of the proposed intervention.

Aims: The main aim of this study is to assist asthma patients to practice asthma self-management at home by sending reminders and responding to patients' consultations with mobile phone short message service (SMS), which will eventually help them to control their asthma, and prevent asthma exacerbation. Thus, the ultimate goal of this proposed study is to improve patient health outcome via enhancing patient-physician interaction through mobile phone short message service (SMS) that is low-cost and could be followed easily by the patients and their physicians.

The hypothesis is that asthma patients who receive weekly text message reminders to educate them and reinforce adherence will have better asthma outcome, such as asthma control, while the intervention integrating patient consultation and reminders by SMS improve asthma outcome even more. The investigators further hypothesize that these subjects under intervention will have an improvement in secondary measures including quality of life and patient satisfaction. The investigators also anticipate that such an approach in asthma management will be cost-effective.

Conditions

• Asthma

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

SMS reminder

send weekly mobile phone short message reminders to the intervention group

OTHER

SMS consultation

told patients to consult qualified asthma nurses by SMS when they need

OTHER

regular care

patients are asked to fill in their paper asthma diary daily for 3 months

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Baoji Central Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• Hanzhong Central Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• Yan'an University Affiliated Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• Xijing Hospital

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• liqiang song, doctor · first affiliated hospital, the fourth military medical university

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

65 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2014-07-31

Primary Completion

2014-12-31

Completion

2014-12-31

Countries

• China

Study Locations