Adolescent Asthma Study
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Empowering teenagers to self manage their asthma.
IRAS ID
151153
Contact name
Graham Roberts
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University Hospital Southampton NHD Foundation Trust
Research summary
Asthma is one of the commonest long-term conditions affecting adolescents. Many have poor control and impaired quality of life despite the availability of modern pharmacotherapy. Our previous research has demonstrated that adolescents with asthma communicate poorly with healthcare professionals and are often not engaged in self-managing their condition. This is likely to underlie their poor asthma control and suggests that healthcare professionals need to take a different approach to this group. Previous research suggests that a self-efficacy (ability to self-manage specific tasks) focused approach might be more effective than current approaches. Although other asthma self-efficacy questionnaires exist, we do not have one for adolescents.The aim of this study is to develop a new adolescent approach for young people with asthma and evaluate whether it improves their symptom control in clinical practice and their engagement with their asthma management. Part of the future evaluation of the approach will focus on asthma related self-efficacy; we will develop and validated a tool to assess this outcome both within the project and more widely
REC name
East of England - Cambridge Central Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
14/EE/0172
Date of REC Opinion
23 May 2014
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion