TEAMCare: Technology Enhanced integrAted asthMa Care
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Technology Enhanced integrated AsthMa care (TEAMCare): randomised control trial of technology to improve outcomes among children with asthma
IRAS ID
311701
Contact name
Ingrid Wolfe
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
King's College London
ISRCTN Number
ISRCTN61239845
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 11 months, 31 days
Research summary
Asthma is a common childhood illness, but care is not as effective as it should be which leads to poor health and problems for children and families. This causes suffering for children and families and can also cause lives to be lost. These problems also cost a lot for the health service and all of society since dealing with problems is more expensive and difficult than preventing them. We aim to improve health for children with asthma by testing a new type of more joined-up care that is about the whole child and not just the disease and combining it with special technologies for asthma management. We think the new type of care is already helping children, but we could do even better by adding new ways of helping children and families to keep track of asthma symptoms and medications using apps. By combining the new type of integrated care with technology, we want to help children and families and their doctors and nurses take better care of asthma together, to help keep asthma under control between visits to the doctor or nurse, and to improve asthma care so much that children can avoid needing emergency care. As part of an RCT, we will test two types of asthma technology together with joined-up care - Wheezo for keeping track of wheeze symptoms and Propeller for keeping track of asthma medicines. We will measure how often children need emergency care for asthma, their health, children and parents' mental health and wellbeing, how often children need healthcare and medicines for asthma, and whether children and their parents or carers miss school or work because of asthma, costs, and how easy the technologies are to use. The evidence from our project should help improve health for children with asthma.
REC name
West of Scotland REC 1
REC reference
22/WS/0178
Date of REC Opinion
2 Feb 2023
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion