| Trial name or title |
Telephone‐based program to promote inhaled corticosteroid adherence among individuals with asthma |
| Methods |
Supportive care, randomised, open‐label, active control (usual care), parallel‐assignment efficacy study over a 19‐month period |
| Participants |
14,064 participants with asthma over the age of 18 |
| Interventions |
A telephone‐based intervention which uses interactive voice recognition technology to remind people with asthma to take their medication and order refills when appropriate. The technology also gives recorded asthma education and can transfer participants to a pharmacist to arrange a prescription. Participants will receive between 1 and 8 phone calls during the study. |
| Outcomes |
Approximately 2000 participants will be sent a questionnaire at the study entry and again at the end of the study to assess quality of life, respiratory health, asthma control, depression, inhaler use beliefs and satisfaction with the intervention. Electronic medical record data will be used to help determine adherence rates |
| Starting date |
June 2007 |
| Contact information |
Vollmer, Kaiser Permanente NW, Centre for Health Research, KPNW, Portland, Oregon United States |
| Notes |
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