How Are You Today
Research type
Research Study
Full title
How are you today: Understanding how people with COPD use a self-management app to monitor their condition
IRAS ID
237423
Contact name
Helena Tendedez
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Faculty of Science and Technology
Duration of Study in the UK
3 years, 0 months, 1 days
Research summary
This project will involve working alongside COPD nurses within a respiratory care service and patients with COPD to understand how they use a mobile app for self-management of their condition. The mobile phone app (called How Are You Today) that we will be using in this study has been commissioned by the service, and is considered part of the routine pulmonary rehabilitation programme at the trust. Our study will be purely qualitative, where we will be interviewing COPD patients at three different intervals. Our study will not change their care or the usual contact that these patients would have with clinicians.
The study aims to seek the qualitative opinions of those using the app. We are interested in whether those using the app for self-management find the process of self-managing using a mobile health app easy, supportive and helpful. We are not looking into if the app can change or add to the patients' care. The app records qualitative symptom data that is in the form of a diary, which patients will choose to freely show us (or not) in their final interview with us. This is at complete discretion of the participant.
REC name
South Central - Berkshire B Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/SC/0200
Date of REC Opinion
10 May 2018
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion