Table 5.
Self reported self management behaviours. Value are numbers (percentages) unless stated otherwise
| Variables | Baseline | 6 months | 12 months | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Telephone health coaching | Usual care | Telephone health coaching | Usual care | P value | Telephone health coaching | Usual care | P value | |||
| Smoking quit attempt in past 6 months | NA | NA | 29 (54) | 21 (49) | 0.72 | 30 (58) | 21 (53) | 0.55 | ||
| Attendance at smoking cessation service* | NA | NA | 3 (10) | 1 (5) | 0.63 | 3 (10) | 4 (19) | 0.43 | ||
| Median (IQR, n) medication adherence score† | 1 (0-2, 273) | 1 (0-2, 265) | 1 (0-2, 219) | 1 (0-2, 255) | 0.008 | 1 (0-1, 218) | 1 (0-2, 255) | 0.10 | ||
| Inhaler check in past 6 months | NA | NA | 168 (68) | 157 (55) | 0.006 | 156 (65) | 153 (55) | 0.02 | ||
| Agreed a care plan with healthcare provider‡: | ||||||||||
| In past 6 months | 80 (28) | 82 (29) | 108 (44) | 85 (30) | 0.002 | 79 (33) | 75 (27) | 0.02 | ||
| >6 months ago | 25 (9) | 26 (9) | 53 (21) | 70 (25) | 72 (30) | 70 (25) | ||||
| Never | 165 (57) | 156 (54) | 63 (25) | 104 (37) | 68 (28) | 111 (40) | ||||
| Written advice on what to do if symptoms get worse | 49 (17) | 49 (17) | 57 (23) | 47 (17) | 0.05 | 54 (23) | 52 (19) | 0.14 | ||
| Antibiotic rescue pack: | ||||||||||
| Has one | 77 (27) | 75 (26) | 93 (37) | 81 (29) | 0.02 | 97 (40) | 83 (30) | 0.02 | ||
| Confident in its use | 71 (92) | 68 (91) | 85 (91) | 76 (94) | 0.49 | 95 (98) | 76 (92) | 0.09 | ||
| Steroid rescue pack: | ||||||||||
| Has one | 56 (19) | 51 (18) | 63 (25) | 60 (21) | 0.23 | 70 (29) | 58 (21) | 0.03 | ||
| Confident in its use | 52 (93) | 47 (92) | 53 (84) | 55 (92) | 0.40 | 65 (93) | 54 (93) | 1.00 | ||
Percentages do not add up to 100% owing to missing data.
NA=not applicable; IQR=interquartile range.
*
Denominator is participants who made a quit attempt in previous 6 months.
†
Ranges from 0 to 24. Low scores are good and high scores are bad.
‡
Baseline assessment only covered the previous 12 months (rather than 6 months at follow-up points).