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Comprehensive Home-based Self-management Support for COPD Patients
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Self-management barrier support and Basic COPD Education for COPD and Self-management Behaviors. Completed, enrolled 59 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The study team will adapt and expand an effective model of asthma self-management support for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In this new model, community health workers will comprehensively screen for and address barriers to effective COPD self-management, including maladaptive coping behaviors, and guide patients through home-based pulmonary rehabilitation. Feasibility of the new model will be assessed in preparation for a fully powered, multisite randomized trial.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
For the intervention, community health workers will assess barriers to good self-management behaviors that lie within 4 domains: 1) social context, 2) physical health and functioning, 3) cognitive factors, and 4) psychological factors. They will work with participants for 6 months to help them work through their barriers to self-management of COPD. Participants can also participate in home-based pulmonary rehabilitation and can receive emergency pack/action pack medication for COPD exacerbations.
The attention control will consist of 4 visits by a COPD educator to the home to review the COPD education booklet. During the first visit, this COPD educator will review the COPD 1-2-3 booklet in its entirety with the patient. During visits 2 and 3, the COPD educator will make a visit to "check in" with the patient, ask how they are doing with their respiratory symptoms, and review any sections of the COPD 1-2-3 booklet the patient chooses. The COPD educator will recommend visits every 2 months but the patient and COPD educator may choose to modify the interval as needed. If the patient appears to be experiencing worsening respiratory symptoms during any visit, the COPD educator will notify the patient's physician.