Effects of Web-Based Education on Patient Empowerment and Asthma Control in Asthma Patients

Summary

Asthma is defined as a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways associated with an extreme increase in airway hyperresponsiveness leading to recurrent wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing attacks. The World Health Organization states that approximately 339 million individuals worldwide have asthma and more than 400 thousand deaths occur due to asthma every year.

With effective and sustainable asthma management, it is possible to reduce disease-related complaints, admissions to emergency units and hospitalizations, limit the physiological and psychological effects of the disease, prevent dependence on healthcare professionals and caregivers, increase the quality of life and reduce the mortality of the disease. Patient education, which is within the educational role of professional nurses, is very important in asthma management. The research was planned in a single-center, randomized control group pretest-posttest design. The sample will consist of individuals who applied to the Allergy and Immunology clinic of Sureyyapasa Chest Diseases and Surgery Training and Research Hospital between May 2024 and January 2024, who have been diagnosed with asthma for at least one year and who accept the study \[25 intervention group - 25 control group\]. Groups will be determined using the random numbers table from the simple random sampling method. A web-based asthma education module will be created in line with the literature, and participants in the intervention group will be given synchronous training in 5 modules. After meeting the individuals in the intervention and control groups and obtaining verbal and written consent, they will be asked to fill out the Patient Information Form, Patient Empowerment Scale and Asthma Control Test prepared via Google Forms. A 30-minute training session will be given to the intervention group every week and there will be short evaluations after each training. When the 5th Module is completed, the intervention group will be asked to fill out the Patient Empowerment Scale and Asthma Control Test Scale. No intervention will be applied to the control group. 5. At the end of the module, the Patient Empowerment Scale and Asthma Control Test will be completed by individuals in the control group. It is thought that web-based asthma education that individuals will receive will positively affect their empowerment levels and increase their disease control.

Conditions

• Asthma
• Patient Empowerment

Interventions

OTHER

web based education

Training presentations will be prepared in 5 modules by taking expert opinions in line with the literature. Training will be aimed at empowering patients to control asthma. It will include topics such as medication use, device use, exercise and disease management. Each week, an intervention group will be invited online to a module and the training will be given by the researcher.

OTHER

Standard education brochure

The control group will not be given web-based training, but will be given the standard asthma education brochure of the Ministry of Health.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Neslihan Komser · SUREYYAPASA CHEST DISEASES AND THORACIC SURGERY TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

65 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-05-30

Primary Completion

2024-06-30

Completion

2024-09-30

Countries

• Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations