Shared decision-making in the BREATHE asthma intervention trial: A research protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To evaluate the preliminary effectiveness of the BRief Evaluation of Asthma THerapy intervention, a 7-min primary care provider-delivered shared decision-making protocol that uses motivational interviewing to address erroneous asthma disease and medication beliefs.

Design

A multi-centre masked two-arm group-randomized clinical trial.

Methods

This 2-year pilot study is funded (September 2016) by the National Institute of Nursing Research. Eight providers will be randomized to one of two arms: the active intervention (N = 4) or a dose-matched attention control (N = 4). Providers will deliver the intervention to which they were randomized to 10 Black adult patients with uncontrolled asthma (N = 80). Patients will be followed three months postintervention to test the

SUBMITTER: George M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8260028 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature