An interventional study of Continuing education and usual care in Asthma, sponsored by Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre. Completed at 1 site in Brazil. Open to participants aged 5 Years to 45 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2017-05-15.
Sponsored by Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre · Not applicable, Interventional, and Health services research
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of multifaceted educational interventions in the care of asthma, conducted remotely over the platform TelessaúdeRS in teams of the Family Health Strategy and the consequent clinical improvement patients.
Cluster-randomized trial with follow-up of 6 months. The aim of this study is to determine whether multifaceted interventions performed at a distance for the care of asthma symptoms reduce overhead, improve asthma control and qualify the care provided to patients.
3,921 studies on the registry are indexed under Asthma; 507 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 467 is above the median of 83 across 2,752 interventional studies indexed under Asthma.
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Exclusion Criteria:
RESPIRANET is a multifaceted intervention directed at professionals of the Family Health Teams in the inner cities.Includes telemedicine, reminders, video conferences, educational materials for patients and consultants.
Behavioral: Continuing education
usual care
Other: usual care
Includes telemedicine, reminders, video conferences, educational materials for patients and consultants.
Also known as: RESPIRANET
Received the usual care provided
Symptom burden, measured as the number of self-reported asthma symptom days (ASD). ASD is based on 2 week recall.
The definition of a symptom day includes presence of any of the four types of asthma symptoms: wheeze, cough, night time awakening ou shortness of breath. The results will be collected through the application of standardized questionnaires.
Time frame: six months
Asthma control
Control of asthma will be evaluated by the excessive use of relief medication in the last month.
Time frame: 6 months
Health care utilization
Proportion of unscheduled medical visits during the follow-up
Time frame: 6 meses
Proportion of patients in use inhaled corticosteroids
Use of inhaled corticosteroids assessed by the proportion of patients who require medication to prevent asthma symptoms that are in use of inhaled corticosteroids.
Time frame: 6 meses
Plan to share: Undecided
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