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Living with asthma and chronic obstructive airways disease: using technology to support self-management – an overview

Living with asthma and chronic obstructive airways disease: using technology to support self-management – an overview
Living with asthma and chronic obstructive airways disease: using technology to support self-management – an overview
Long term respiratory conditions such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are common, and cause high levels of morbidity and mortality. Supporting self-management is advocated for both asthma, and increasingly so for COPD and there is growing interest in the potential role of a range of new technologies, such as smartphone apps, the web, or telehealth to facilitate and promote self-management in these conditions. Treatment goals for both asthma and COPD include aiming to control symptoms, maintain activities, achieve the best possible quality of life, and minimise risks of exacerbation. To do this health professionals should be: a) helping patients to recognise deteriorating symptoms and act appropriately; b) promoting adherence to maintenance therapy; c) promoting a regular review where triggers can be established, and strategies for managing such triggers discussed, and d) promoting healthy lifestyles and positive self-management of symptoms. In particular, low uptake of asthma action plans is a modifiable contributor to morbidity and possibly also to mortality in those with asthma and should be addressed as a priority. Using technology to support self-management is an evolving strategy which shows promise. This review provides an overview of self-management support, and discusses how newer technologies may help patients and health professionals to meet key treatment goals.
1479-9723
407-419
Morrison, D.
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Mair, F.
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Yardley, L.
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Kirby, S.
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Thomas, D.
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Morrison, D.
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Mair, F.
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Yardley, L.
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Kirby, S.
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Morrison, D., Mair, F., Yardley, L., Kirby, S. and Thomas, D. (2017) Living with asthma and chronic obstructive airways disease: using technology to support self-management – an overview. Chronic Respiratory Disease, 14 (4), 407-419. (doi:10.1177/1479972316660977).

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Long term respiratory conditions such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are common, and cause high levels of morbidity and mortality. Supporting self-management is advocated for both asthma, and increasingly so for COPD and there is growing interest in the potential role of a range of new technologies, such as smartphone apps, the web, or telehealth to facilitate and promote self-management in these conditions. Treatment goals for both asthma and COPD include aiming to control symptoms, maintain activities, achieve the best possible quality of life, and minimise risks of exacerbation. To do this health professionals should be: a) helping patients to recognise deteriorating symptoms and act appropriately; b) promoting adherence to maintenance therapy; c) promoting a regular review where triggers can be established, and strategies for managing such triggers discussed, and d) promoting healthy lifestyles and positive self-management of symptoms. In particular, low uptake of asthma action plans is a modifiable contributor to morbidity and possibly also to mortality in those with asthma and should be addressed as a priority. Using technology to support self-management is an evolving strategy which shows promise. This review provides an overview of self-management support, and discusses how newer technologies may help patients and health professionals to meet key treatment goals.

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Accepted/In Press date: 21 April 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 10 August 2016
Published date: November 2017
Organisations: Primary Care & Population Sciences

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Local EPrints ID: 393822
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/393822
ISSN: 1479-9723
PURE UUID: 1da541a4-b99b-46a1-b660-7e79c7023a2c
ORCID for L. Yardley: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3853-883X
ORCID for S. Kirby: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1759-1356

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Date deposited: 06 May 2016 09:16
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 05:33

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Author: D. Morrison
Author: F. Mair
Author: L. Yardley ORCID iD
Author: S. Kirby ORCID iD
Author: D. Thomas

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