10 Wireless health clinical trials

By: Brian Dolan | Nov 11, 2009        

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DenmarkDenmark: Assessment of the Health Related Effects of Compliance Optimization in Asthma Through Use of SMS (Short Message System) – A Controlled Trial

Principal Investigator: Claus Møldrup, PhD University of Copenhagen

Sponsors and Collaborators University of Copenhagen; MedicoMonitor; The Ministry of Health and Prevention in Denmark

The study aims at providing information on how the Short Message Service (SMS) tool influences self-management in asthma patients and to assess the resulting health related effect. A wide range of models and theories exist in the compliance area, such as technical models, communication models, cognitive models and self-management models and theories. The use of some of these theories and models will serve as theoretical and explanatory tools for studying how and why the SMS tool influences the patient’s self-management.

Objective: The objective of this study is to assess the health-related effects of a SMS compliance and monitoring system for optimized asthma treatment in a controlled trial setting.

Enrollment: 244
Study Start Date: November 2007
Study Completion Date: May 2008

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  • http://www.ctru.auckland.ac.nz robyn whittaker

    There are other places that trials can be registered – i am involved with three mobile phone clinical trials that are registered either in the UK or Australasia. One large text messaging programme to help people quit smoking in the UK (txt2stop), another quit smoking programme that uses video messaging by role models in NZ, and a depression prevention programme for teens that uses multimedia messaging and mobile websites in NZ. For more details http://www.ctru.auckland.ac.nz.