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NCT Number: NCT03216603

Health Literacy in People With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Health literacy refers to personal and relational factors affecting a person's ability to acquire, understand and use information about health and health services. In a need assessment study it was found that, the health services need to focus on health literacy factors in the follow up of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Thus, this project evaluate the effect a of a health literacy partnership health promotion intervention (hospital, municipalities, university) after discharge from hospital with the use of motivational interviewing and tailored follow-ups on re-admission, health literacy, self-management quality of life and cost in people with COPD compared with usual care.

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Key information

Conditions

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Chronic Disease Disease Attributes Lung Diseases Lung Diseases, Obstructive Pathologic Processes Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive Respiratory Tract Diseases

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital

Oslo, 0440, Norway

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Diagnosed with COPD,
  • Above 18 years,
  • Admitted to a medical department at the main intervention hospital, l
  • Live in the sites belonging to the intervention hospital.

Exclusion criteria

  • Not diagnosed with COPD,
  • Not above 18 years,
  • Not admitted to a medical department at the main intervention hospital, and
  • Not living in the sites belonging to the intervention hospital.
  • Cognitive failure
  • Patients that are investigated or treated for cancer

Treatment and study plan

Health literacy intervention group

Behavioral

In the health literacy intervention group all patients will receive self-management help using a motivating interviewing (MI) technique delivered by two MI and COPD trained nurses once a week for eight weeks after hospitalization. Subsequently, the contact between the patients and the nurses will be by follow up motivational telephone calls once a month or more if needed for four months (i.a a total of six months intervention period).

Primary outcomes

  1. Change of admissions

    Time frame: Eight weeks, six months and one year

    Number of re-admissions

Secondary outcomes

  1. Change of health literacy

    Time frame: Eight weeks, six months and one year

    Questionnaire

  2. Change of disease specific quality of life

    Time frame: Eight weeks, six months and one year

    Questionnaire

  3. Change of e-Health

    Time frame: Eight weeks, six months and one year

    Questionnaire

  4. Change of physical function

    Time frame: Eight weeks, six months and one year

    Questionnaire

  5. Change of self-management

    Time frame: Eight weeks, six months and one year

    Questionnaire

  6. Change of psychological stress

    Time frame: Eight weeks, six months and one year

    Questionnaire

  7. Change of self-efficacy

    Time frame: Eight weeks, six months and one year

    Questionnaire

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital

Other

Collaborators

  • Norwegian Extra Foundation for Health and Rehabilitation
  • University of Oslo

Registry information

Official study title

Health Literacy. An Intervention on Organized Information and Health Care for People With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Important dates

Study start
2017
Primary completion
2020
Study completion
2020
First posted
Jul 13, 2017
Registry last updated
Dec 14, 2021

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