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Reducing the Number of Hospital Admissions With Multiple Nursing Interventions in COPD Patients Using Oxygen Concentrators at Home

RecruitingNAAges 18 Years - anyAllNecmettin Erbakan University
NCT05730088 on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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In plain words

What the trial is, and whether it could suit you

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a progressive lung disease characterized by persistent airflow obstruction and chronic respiratory symptoms or alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency in response to inhaled cigarette smoke or other irritants. The excessive morbidity and mortality associated with COPD acute exacerbations represent a significant public health problem that places a high burden on patients, their families and society. In frequent and severe exacerbations, patients may experience a decrease in quality of life, depression, and even death up to one year after hospitalization. Costs associated with COPD are more than $15.5 billion, and hospitalizations and repeated hospital admissions related to acute exacerbations alone account for 70% of all costs. For these reasons, efforts to reduce hospital admissions and hospitalizations associated with recurrent exacerbations are im

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📋 Eligibility rules (as published)
Inclusion Criteria: * Being diagnosed with stage 4 (group D) COPD according to GOLD criteria * Being 18 years or older, * Having a video computer, tablet or phone, * Having an internet connection at home or on the phone, * Residing in the city centre of Konya, * Not having a communication problem, such as an inability to understand/speak Turkish, that would prevent participation in the research, * Being literate, * Using an oxygen concentrator at home. Exclusion Criteria: * Being illiterate, * Being diagnosed with first, second and third-stage COPD according to GOLD criteria, * Having another lung disease in addition to COPD (Lung cancer-Asthma, etc.), * Having physical and/or mental disabilities, * Being visually impaired and/or hearing impaired, * Having a communication problem that prevents participation in the research, such as an inability to understand/speak Turkish, * Having been diagnosed with Covid-19 or having had it in the past, * Having a psychiatric disease
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What it tests

  • health education
  • Mobile application (Creating a WhatsApp group):
  • Telephone interview:
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Where

1 site
Selçuk Tıp Fakültesi Hastanesi
Konya, Turkey (Türkiye)
🤝 Taking part is your choice, and you can leave at any time. Only the trial team can confirm you are eligible — always decide together with your own doctor.
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