Goal-setting intervention in patients with active asthma: protocol for a pilot cluster-randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Supporting self-management behaviours is recommended guidance for people with asthma. Preliminary work suggests that a brief, intensive, patient-centred intervention may be successful in supporting people with asthma to participate in life roles and activities they value. We seek to assess the feasibility of undertaking a cluster-randomised controlled trial (cRCT) of a brief, goal-setting intervention delivered in the context of an asthma review consultation.

Methods/design

A two armed, single-blinded, multi-centre, cluster-randomised controlled feasibility trial will be conducted in UK primary care. Randomisation will take place at the practice level. We aim to recruit a total of 80 primary care patients with active asthma from at least eight practices across two

SUBMITTER: Hoskins G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3846716 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature