Effectiveness of Interventions to Teach Respiratory Inhaler Technique (E-TRaIN)
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
In brief
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the relative effectiveness of two different ways to teach subjects while hospitalized how to use respiratory inhalers and to follow-up after discharge home from the hospital to determine durability of the education. Teach-to-Goal (TTG) education employs instruction followed by patient "teach-back," then repeated cycles of learning and assessment until a skill is mastered. By contrast, Brief Intervention (BI) education only consists of providing the patient with verbal and written instruction. The investigators hypothesize that hospital-based TTG compared to BI increases a patient's ability to retain instructions on respiratory inhaler technique. The investigators will test this hypothesis separately for the MDI and Diskus® devices after discharge.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01426581
- Run by
- University of Chicago
- People needed
- 120
- Starts
- 2011-08-01
- Expected to finish
- 2013-02-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2019-11-19
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- 18 years and older
- Admitting diagnosis of asthma or COPD
- Physician- diagnosed asthma, asthma/COPD, or COPD. We will enroll patients even if the primary reason for admission is not asthma or COPD (e.g., patients admitted for heart failure, but with a physician diagnosis of COPD are eligible)
- Patient will be discharged home on a Metered Dose Inhaler (MDI; e.g., albuterol)
You may not qualify if…
- Currently in an intensive care unit
- Physician declines to provide consent
- Patient unable to provide consent (e.g., history of cognitive impairment, unable to understand English) or declines to provide consent
- Previous participant in this study
Where it is running
- University of Chicago — Chicago, Illinois, United States
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