Impact of a Peer Support Program Amongst COPD Patients and Their Caregivers
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Official title
Comparing Effectiveness of Self-management and Peer Support Communication Programs Amongst Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Patients and Their Family Caregivers
Brief summary
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The study is to compare the effectiveness of two health communication and dissemination strategies that are designed to engage patients and family caregivers in successfully managing COPD in 'real-world' settings. Both strategies aim to advance patient understanding of COPD, its treatment options, and self-care tasks; support them in coping with the disease; and enable them to adopt a variety of positive behaviors, including adherence to treatment plans, smoking cessation, joining pulmonary rehabilitation programs, and assuming an active, healthy lifestyle. One strategy relies on the healthcare professional (HCP) as the primary communicator about COPD self-management (HCP arm), whereas the other uses a dual approach that involves both healthcare professionals and peer mentors delivering such communication (HCP plus Peer arm). Peer mentors are COPD patients and caregivers who have successfully managed COPD and have received foundational training on peer mentoring. Specifically, the study aims are to : 1) Conduct a randomized controlled trial in which the 'HCP' and 'HCP plus Peer' strategies are tested in 'real-world' healthcare settings; 2) compare the impact of these strategies on patient satisfaction, experience, activation, self- efficacy, self-care behavior, health status, quality of life, use of Emergency Department (ED) and hospital services, and survival; and, 3) compare the impact of these strategies on caregiver satisfaction, experience, self-efficacy, stress, and coping skills.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02891200
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 292 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 40 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Apr 16, 2017
- Primary completion
- Jun 28, 2019
- Completion
- Nov 3, 2019
- Last update posted
- Feb 26, 2020
2017 – 2019
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 2
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 2
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center | Baltimore | Maryland | 21224 | — |
| Howard County General Hospital | Columbia | Maryland | 21044 | — |
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- Last update posted Feb 26, 2020 · Synced Sep 6, 2026
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