Video vs. TTG Respiratory Inhaler Technique Assessment and InstructioN (V-TRaIN)
- Interventional
- Recruiting
- NCT02611531
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Video vs. TTG Respiratory Inhaler Technique Assessment and InstructioN (V-TRaIN)
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of two different ways to teach subjects while hospitalized how to use respiratory inhalers and to follow-up after discharge home from the hospital to determine durability of the education.
While TTG is a promising method to improve care for patients who use inhalers, several limitations prevent widespread adoption. First, TTG relies on in-person assessment and education, as well as training and monitoring instructors to ensure fidelity, making it time-consuming and costly. Also, because a single educational session does not ensure long-term retention, post-discharge reinforcement may be needed, which may be impractical with in-person TTG. One potential method to surmount TTG's limitations is use of interactive video module education (VME), a method that has been used for health education in other clinical contexts. Through iterative self-assessments and video-demonstrations on a tablet computer, VME has the potential to be less costly, maintain fidelity, and be more easily extended into the post-discharge setting than in-person TTG. However, certain questions remain about VME. It is unclear whether VME will yield similar results when compared to TTG, or whether patients will have the ability to, and be willing to use, VME in the post-discharge setting. Therefore, before widespread implementation of VME, it is critical to rigorously develop and test VME for inhaler education in the hospital setting. Ultimately, it will also be important to understand patients' ability and willingness to use post-discharge VME for educational reinforcement to allow for this strategy to transition patients across care settings from hospital to home.
Gender
All
Age Group
18 Years and up
Accepting Healthy Volunteers?
No
1. Age 18 years and older
2. Admission to the inpatient medical service and surgical service
3. Physician-diagnosed COPD or asthma. We will enroll patients even if the primary reason for admission is not COPD or asthma (e.g., patients admitted for heart failure, but with a physician diagnosis of COPD are eligible).
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Currently in an intensive care unit
2. Physician declines to provide consent
3. Patient unable to provide consent (e.g., history of cognitive impairment, unable to understand English) or declines to provide consent