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Using web-based videos to improve inhalation technique in COPD patients requiring hospitalization: A randomized controlled trial.


ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Inhalation errors frequently occur in patients receiving inhalation treatment, which can significantly impair treatment success. While this underscores the importance of inhalation training, the role of modern web-based instructional videos has not yet been investigated. METHODS:A randomized controlled trial using standardized checklists (10 items: preparation, N = 3, inhalation routine, N = 6, and closure of inhalation, N = 1) was carried out to determine the relative effects of web-based, device-specific videos versus standard personal instruction on reducing multiple (?2) inhalation errors in severe COPD patients requiring hospitalisation. Investigators assessing inhalation errors were blinded to the intervention. RESULTS:Multiple handling errors were recorded at baseline in 152 out of 159 patients (95.6%). Each teaching method led to a similar reduction in errors (videos: from 4.2±1.6 to 1.5±1.5 errors; personal instruction: from 3.8±1.5 to 1.3±1.6; p<0.0001), although non-inferiority of web-based video teaching could not be confirmed statistically due to an unpredictably high number of patients in both groups still making multiple handling errors (44.0% versus 40.3%, mean difference 3.7%; 95%CI [-12.0-19.4%]). CONCLUSION:Multiple inhalation errors regularly occur in severe COPD patients requiring hospitalisation. Web-based video teaching is capable of reducing inhalation errors. However, compared to personal instruction non-inferiority could not be established. This was due to an unexpectedly high number of patients with persisting inhalation errors despite training. TRIAL REGISTRATION:Clinical trial Registration: German Clinical Trial Register, DRKS 00004320.

SUBMITTER: Windisch W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6191087 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Using web-based videos to improve inhalation technique in COPD patients requiring hospitalization: A randomized controlled trial.

Windisch Wolfram W   Schwarz Sarah Bettina SB   Magnet Friederike Sophie FS   Dreher Michael M   Schmoor Claudia C   Storre Jan Hendrik JH   Knipel Verena V  

PloS one 20181016 10


<h4>Background</h4>Inhalation errors frequently occur in patients receiving inhalation treatment, which can significantly impair treatment success. While this underscores the importance of inhalation training, the role of modern web-based instructional videos has not yet been investigated.<h4>Methods</h4>A randomized controlled trial using standardized checklists (10 items: preparation, N = 3, inhalation routine, N = 6, and closure of inhalation, N = 1) was carried out to determine the relative  ...[more]

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