DIPSS Asthma: Development of an asthma home management website

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Development of an asthma self-management digital intervention to be integrated and supported within primary care: qualitative research with patients and health professionals

• IRAS ID

  178989

• Contact name

  Lucy Yardley

• Sponsor organisation

  University of Southampton

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 9 months, 31 days

• Research summary

  Nearly 6% of the UK population have asthma, comprising 5.4 million people, most of whom are managed in primary care. Asthma is associated with high numbers of admissions and Emergency Department attendances, and it is estimated that 70% of these could have been prevented by appropriate early intervention and self-management. Well-designed digital interventions can effectively change patient health-related behaviour, improve patient knowledge and confidence for self-management of health, and lead to better health outcomes.
  Our research team is funded by an NIHR PGfAR programme grant to develop a DI for self-management of asthma, using iterative qualitative research and consultation to ensure it is viewed as acceptable and useful by patients and primary care staff throughout the early stages of development.
  The research design is a series of qualitative studies (interviews and focus groups) with around 40 patients and 40 health professionals. After giving informed consent participants will be asked to share their thoughts and feelings about early versions of the intervention and any issues that it raises for managing asthma within primary care.
  Study 1: Focus group studies to elicit health-care professional (HCP) views of the intervention.
  Study 2: ‘think-aloud’ studies whilst viewing and using the intervention.
  Study 3: retrospective patient interviews about their experience of the intervention and their condition over time.
  Interviews and focus groups will be tape recorded, transcribed and analysed for common and salient themes. This feedback will help us to create an intervention that is effective, cost-effective, feasible and acceptable to both patients and health professionals. Once fully developed and amended in response to feedback from the current study the web based intervention will be tested in a RCT (a separate IRAS application will be submitted).

• REC name

  London - Brighton & Sussex Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  15/LO/0981

• Date of REC Opinion

  26 Jun 2015

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion