Clinical trial NCT05021796: Telecounselling for Asthma Counseling
Official title: Telecounselling as a Virtual Platform to Replace On-the-job Training for Asthma Counseling
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Asthma
Lead sponsor: National University Health System, Singapore
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-08-26
Enrollment: 30
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 21
Maximum age (years): 99
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: This study is to investigate the efficacy of telecounseling to replace on-the-job training for asthma counseling. This study is designed to fill the knowledge gap for telecounseling as a training platform for asthma counseling among nurses. Hence, the study population consists of nurses who are new to asthma counseling.

Brief summary: In the coronavirus 2019 pandemic, on-the-job training for asthma counseling becomes more difficult. Telecounseling as a training platform becomes a mainstream of training during the pandemic. This study is designed to fill the knowledge gap for telecounseling as a training platform for asthma counseling among nurses.

Detailed description: Asthma education is essential in improving outcomes in asthma management. Patients with asthma exacerbation frequently present to the urgent care centre or emergency department for emergency treatment. Nurse-led asthma education was considered as beneficial to asthma management. However, not all nursing staff in the urgent care centre and emergency department are equipped with skills to counsel patients regarding their asthma control and inhaler use. It is important to empower the nursing staff with these skills such that the care of patients with asthma is not compromised.

In the coronavirus 2019 pandemic, on-the-job training for asthma counseling becomes more difficult. Asthma counseling trainers were usually in the clean zones but recipients of asthma counseling training were usually in the dirty zones. Telecounseling as a training platform becomes a mainstream of training during the pandemic. Telehealthcare interventions on patients with asthma was proven to reduce hospitalization over a 12-month period in a previous meta-analysis. However, there was no study investigating the efficacy of telecounseling to replace on-the-job training for asthma counseling. This study is designed to fill the knowledge gap for telecounseling as a training platform for asthma counseling among nurses.

Eligibility criteria: Including criteria:

* registered nurses
* nurses undergoing a training for asthma telecounseling
* age 21 or more.

Excluding criteria:

* nurses with previous training for asthma counseling
* nurses who do not take care of patients with asthma
* Pregnant women

Primary outcomes:
measure: Self-efficacy on asthma teaching scale
timeFrame: Immediately before and immediately after the telecounseling training
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Satisfaction of the training
timeFrame: Immediately after the telecounseling training
measure: Qualitative data - Focused Interview with the following specific open-ended questions
timeFrame: Immediately after the telecounseling training
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