Effectiveness of an online education program for asthma patients in general practice: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Asthma education programs (AEPs) have been shown to increase quality of life and reduce emergency treatments and hospital admissions. Despite the proven benefits, only a minority of asthma patients attend such programs. To increase the number of educated patients, an online education program (electronic AEP, eAEP) for asthma patients has been developed. The present study aims to investigate the effectiveness of the eAEP in terms of asthma knowledge, asthma control and emergency treatments in general practice settings.

Methods

This is a cluster randomized controlled trial including 100 patients with bronchial asthma from 20 general practices in Bavaria, Germany. General practices will be randomly assigned to either the intervention or control group. Patients in the

SUBMITTER: Eck S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9713723 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature