The Effect of an AEP on Patient's Knowledge Regarding Asthma Disease and Inhaler Technique: RCT

Summary

Asthma is an important chronic disease that causes a significant public health problem and the commonest medical conditions treated in health clinics giving rise to considerable morbidity and mortality. Several studies suggested that improvement of patient knowledge has become a key component of asthma management. In the study setting the education material for Asthma patient is available however the proper cannel to deliver it to patient remains a puzzle to the researcher, therefore this study is trying to close the gap between Asthma education material and patient.The aim of the study is to investigate the effectiveness of an Asthma Education Program (AEP) result in improvement of patient's knowledge, medication adherence and inhaler technique.This is an experimental study a clinical trials. Data will be gathered utilising three an adapted instrument to assess patient knowledge of their disease, medication adherence and inhaler technique. Patients who are came to Asthma Bay in Emergency Department, Respiratory Clinic for routine follow up and admitted to ward will be recruited as study subjects. Subject who are agree to enrol in the study will be randomized into intervention and control group. Subjects in intervention group will be undergone one session of an AEP, however there are no intervention for control group but continue routinely follow up in Respiratory Clinic. To obtain the study result descriptive and inferential statistical analysis will be performed. To analyse the statistical significant of the change in patients' health outcome the pre and post of AEP independent t-test or chi-square test will be used.The expected finding of this study is to determine the effectiveness of AEP result in of patients' knowledge regarding asthma disease, medication adherence and inhaler technique, pre and post of AEP.

Keywords: asthma, asthma education program.

Conditions

• Chronic Respiratory Disease

Interventions

OTHER

Asthma Education Programme

The Asthma Education Programme consists of four items. 1. Education video for Asthmatic patient adapted from Info Sehat by Bahagian Pendidikan Kesihatan Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia which is explaining about Asthma disease, medication and patient responsibility in Asthma management. 2. Small group discussion with subject's to help them understand better in Asthma management. 3. Face to face demonstration and teaching of inhaler technique by three trained nurse in small group range of two to five subjects. At the end of the AEP subject will received a 4. Pamphlet will be obtain from Patients' Education Unit in Ampang Hospital containing vital information about Asthma disease and management. The intervention estimated will take 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes to be completed.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Clinical Research Centre, Malaysia

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Lilyiana Pengui, nursing · Clinical Research Centre, Malaysia

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2015-06-30

Primary Completion

2016-09-30

Completion

2016-12-31