Impact of a Mobile Phone and Educational Intervention
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive, Asthma COPD
In brief
The purpose of this pilot study was to: 1. partner with African American churches to increase awareness of COPD. 2. use a community-based approach to facilitate early detection of COPD in the church setting. The pre-screening with a paper-based tool and spirometry testing were provided at community health fairs at the churches. 3. determine the impact of a combined intervention (education and mobile phone/text messages) on health related-related quality of life and health behaviors of African Americans with asthma and COPD. The study used a randomized controlled trial (RCT) design to assess the effect of the intervention (education and mobile text-messaging) on health-related quality of life and health behaviors recommended for improved COPD self-management. All participants received the educational component then were randomized to a control group and intervention group, in which participants received mobile phone-based text messages on improving health behaviors associated with better self-management of asthma and COPD.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT06878898
- Run by
- Kent State University
- People needed
- 29
- Starts
- 2016-09-01
- Expected to finish
- 2017-04-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2025-03-17
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Eligible participants for the study were African American adults of 18 years and above.
- Participants had to have reported physician diagnosed (on the survey distributed at the church) or spirometry diagnosed (at the community health fair) asthma or COPD, access to a text-messaging enabled mobile phone, and provision of signed informed consent.
You may not qualify if…
- Individuals unwilling to participate in the study and patients with other chronic lung diseases, terminal, or comorbid illnesses more severe in nature than asthma or COPD (i.e., heart disease and cancer) were excluded from the study.
Where it is running
- Kent State University — Kent, Ohio, United States
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