For example, in the UK, only 20% of patients have ever received a written action plan [9]. Meanwhile, people with asthma are looking for alternatives; 65% report having used the internet to locate information about asthma without necessarily involving a health professional. Taken together, ...
Approaches to improving asthma control include adherence to established asthma management guidelines, patient and healthcare professional education, regular asthma monitoring and assessment, review of inhaler technique, provision of a written asthma action plan, use of digital technologies. Key words: ...
They addressed asthma pathophysiology, medication use, self-monitoring, use of an asthma action plan, trigger avoidance, seeking urgent care, communication with clinicians, stress management, receiving influenza and pneumonia vaccines, and accessing community resources. The CHWs provided social support,22,...
when combined with an action plan[11,12]. Moving from paper-based monitoring to mobile phone supported monitoring however remains challenging. A multicentre UK-based study with asthma patients recruited inprimary caresetting could not demonstrate improved asthma control or cost-effectiveness of the mobi...
The UK has one of the highest rates of death from asthma in Europe7 and in the 2014 UK National Review of Asthma Deaths, substance misuse was identified as a factor in 6% of the cases8. Supported self-management such as medication adherence9, attendance at asthma review10,11 and ...
The mainstays of long-term management include specialist assessment, avoidance measures, and the provision of an epinephrine auto-injector and an individualized anaphylaxis action plan. This article provides an overview of the causes, clinical features, diagnosis and acute and long-term management of ...
To target the action regulation route for behaviour change, participants and researchers co-developed the behaviour change intervention. This allowed the participant to plan (action and coping plans), implement, and self-regulate towards the intervention behaviour, with potential to be more effective ...
Optimal self-management involving provision of a written asthma action plan was shown to reduce unscheduled primary care visits and hospitalisations in a Cochrane review68. However, education alone was not included in the analysis as previous work had shown that without an action plan, self-monitori...
6,7 Education should be provided regarding asthma pathobiology, self-assessment of control, understanding asthma medications, proper inhaler technique, and a home action plan when control is lost. Additionally, asthma therapy should be optimized to include inhaled combination therapy comprising high-dose...
“The [patient’s] understanding of the asthma action plan is the problem because [it has] a lot of wording here and there.”—F1, Family Physician, 50–55 years old, 26 years of experience. “Some of them [prefer] visual [formats] to aid them. [If it’s] too wordy [it] is al...