NCT06849245Recruiting
Εffectiveness of a Digital Social Intervention in Primary Care
Measuring Whether Promotion of a Digital Social Intervention by Primary Care Healthcare Professionals and Subsequent Engagement With Online Peer Support Improves Health and Well-being of Patients With Asthma and is Cost-effective: a Randomised Controlled Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 19 Nov 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The goal of this study is to deliver a definitive randomised controlled trial to measure the effectiveness and assess cost-effectiveness of a digital social intervention for patients with asthma, composed of promoting engagement with online peer support in a primary care consultation, followed by engagement with online peer support for 12 months. The main questions/objectives this study aims to answer/address are: * Does promoting engagement with an online health community in primary care help people with troublesome asthma to experience fewer asthma symptoms? * To assess cost-effectiveness of the intervention (including quality of life, well-being, use of healthcare services etc); stakeholder satisfaction (patients and healthcare professionals) with the intervention; fidelity of protocol delivery; context in which positive outcomes can be triggered.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 600 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 27 Jan 2025
- Start date
- 25 Feb 2025
- Primary completion date
- Dec 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Queen Mary University of London
- Diseases
- Asthma
- NCT number
- NCT06849245
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 600
- From 25 Feb 2025 to the primary completion date, Dec 2027
- 5 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Patients receiving institutional long-term care (receiving total care in residential homes or living in nursing homes).
Other
- Patients who are already members of the Asthma + Lung UK online health community or other asthma online health communities/Facebook groups (i.e. general use of social media will not prevent participation).
- Palliative or end of life patients.
- Patients considered unsuitable to take part in the study by their general practitioners/nurses.
- There are no specific criteria for selecting participants for the exit interviews (a convenience sample of patients and clinicians will be used and recruitment will continue until data saturation).
Who the study is looking for
- To participate in the study, participants will need to:
- Be adult asthma patients (aged 18 to 99) who have expressed their interest in digital social interventions in the recruitment survey.
- Report troublesome asthma (i.e. an ACT score of less than 20) in the recruitment survey).
- Be competent to consent for themselves, as determined by the healthcare professional delivering the consultation.
- There are no specific criteria for selecting participants for the exit interviews (a convenience sample of patients and clinicians will be used and recruitment will continue until data saturation).
Age in the registry: 18 years to 99 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (5)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| South West Peninsula Regional Research Delivery Network Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Exeter | United Kingdom | Not yet recruiting |
| East Midlands Regional Research Delivery Network Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Leicester | United Kingdom | Recruiting |
| North London Regional Research Delivery Network Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | London | United Kingdom | Recruiting |
| North East and North Cumbria Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Newcastle upon Tyne | United Kingdom | Recruiting |
| East of England Regional Research Delivery Network Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Norwich | United Kingdom | Recruiting |
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