Clinical trial NCT04466020: SELF - BREATHE for Chronic Breathlessness
Official title: A Self -Guided, Internet -Based Intervention for Patients With Chronic Breathlessness (SELF-BREATHE): an Interview Study.
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: COPD
Cancer
Heart Failure
Interstitial Disease
Dyspnea
Lead sponsor: King's College Hospital NHS Trust
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: King's College London
First posted: 2020-07-10
Enrollment: 25
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 100
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: COPD, Cancer, Heart Failure, Interstitial Lung disease, Dyspnea

Brief summary: Semi-structured qualitative interviews will be conducted to understand key factors that would enable / facilitate patients with chronic breathlessness to potentially use an online breathlessness intervention (SELF-BREATHE).

Detailed description: STUDY OVERVIEW

Full title:

A self -guided, internet -based intervention for patients with chronic breathlessness (SELF-BREATHE): an interview study.

Objective:

To understand the key factors that would enable / facilitate patients with chronic breathlessness to use an online breathlessness support intervention (SELF-BREATHE).

Study type:

Qualitative interview study

Methods:

Semi-structured qualitative interviews will be conducted to achieve maximum variation in approx 20 patients with chronic breathlessness (a purposive sample: age sex, diagnoses, and presence of caregiver).

The interview will explore and identify:

Patients' views/experiences of internet-based activities, e.g. digital apps, shopping online; Patients' understanding, preferences, values and motivations that would influence uptake of SELF-BREATHE; Potential barriers to the development and use of SELF-BREATHE; Facilitators to usage of SELF-BREATHE, such as the ability to self-monitor progress etc...

These topics cover areas of uncertainty in order to optimise the SELF - BREATHE intervention.

Inclusion criteria:

Adult patients \>18 years of age, with the ability to read, converse in English and able to provide informed consent

Chronic breathlessness on exertion and or rest (MRC dysponea score \>2)

Advanced disease such as cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), chronic heart failure (CHF) or interstitial lung disease (ILD), where the underlying disease is deemed to be optimally medically managed by the referring clinician / allied health professional / clinical nurse specialist

Exclusion criteria:

Breathlessness of unknown cause

A primary diagnosis of chronic hyperventilation syndrome

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Adult patients \>18 years of age, with the ability to read, converse in English and able to provide informed consent
* Chronic breathlessness on exertion and or rest (MRC dyspnea score \>2)
* Advanced disease such as cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), chronic heart failure (CHF) or interstitial lung disease (ILD), where the underlying disease is deemed to be optimally medically managed by the referring clinician / allied health professional / clinical nurse specialist

Exclusion Criteria:

* Breathlessness of unknown cause
* A primary diagnosis of chronic hyperventilation syndrome

Primary outcomes:
measure: Descriptive qualitative analysis of patients' preferences, values and motivations that would influence the use of an online self - management intervention for chronic breathlessness (SELF-BREATHE).
timeFrame: 12 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: London
country: United Kingdom
facility: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Study officials:
affiliation: King's College Hospital NHS Trust
name: Charles C Reilly, PhD,MSc,BSc
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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