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Asthma Self-Management Improves Drug Adherence
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, say that asthma patients, who spend as little as 30 minutes with a health care professional to develop a personalized self-management plan, may improve their condition.
"Mortality from asthma is preventable. However, many patients struggle to manage symptoms on their own and often end up visiting emergency departments. Our study indicates that in a clinical setting, personalized self-management education coupled with self-monitoring may be a cost-effective way to empower patients to better control their disease," said the study's lead author Dr. Susan L. Janson, a UCSF clinical specialist in pulmonary disease.
Earlier, the researchers had shown that teaching asthma patients how to self-manage their disease can improve health outcomes and that tailored education is more effective than standardized programs because patients find it more personally relevant.
However, Janson pointed out that it had been unclear as to which components of self-management education could lead to better control of the disease.
For the study, the researchers conducted a 24-week randomised, controlled trial to know whether individualized instruction in asthma self-management added significantly to the effects of self-monitoring alone on patients' adherence to inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs).
ICSs are medications that can help reduce inflammation in the airway and prevent asthma attacks.
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