Teaching Use of Respiratory Inhalers (TURI)

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Asthma, COPD

In brief

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of enrolling and randomizing patients into one of two educational interventions to teach appropriate respiratory inhaler technique and to collect preliminary estimates of the comparative effectiveness of two types of education. Teach-to-Goal (TTG) education employs instruction followed by patient "teach-back," then repeated cycles of learning and assessment until a skill, i.e. respiratory inhaler technique, is mastered. By contrast, Brief Intervention (BI) education only consists of providing the patient with verbal and written instruction on the skill, i.e., respiratory inhaler technique. The investigators hypothesize that hospital-based TTG compared to BI increases a patient's ability to learn respiratory inhaler technique. The investigators will test this hypothesis separately for the MDI and Diskus® devices.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01456494

Run by

University of Chicago

People needed

50

Starts

2009-07-01

Expected to finish

2010-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-06-18

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 18 years and older
• Admission to the inpatient medical service and surgical service
• Physician-diagnosed asthma or COPD
• Physician plans to discharge patients 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 assent (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 Medical Center — Chicago, Illinois, United States

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