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Trial reportJournal of medicine and life2022

The efficient use of smartphone apps to improve the level of asthma knowledge.

Muhammad Thesa Ghozali, Satibi Satibi, Zullies Ikawati, Lutfan Lazuardi

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Journal of medicine and life, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Digital Health Education for Chronic Lung Disease: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025
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  3. Clinical inertia in asthma.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2023
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Muhammad Thesa GhozaliSchool of Pharmacy, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Satibi SatibiDepartment of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Zullies IkawatiDepartment of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Lutfan LazuardiDepartment of Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patient education is one of the important aspects of improving knowledge and quality of asthma control. In this digital era, it can be made with the support of an app - or known as mHealth. Unfortunately, implementing applications for patient education is relatively new among asthmatic patients in Indonesia. This study aimed to determine the efficacy of the educational content of the AsmaDroid® app on the levels of asthma knowledge among asthmatic patients. This study was a randomized controlled trial carried out from December 2019 to March 2020 in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. A quota sampling was employed, resulting in 140 study participants being categorized into control and treatment groups. Before and after the 4-week treatment period, all participants were asked to complete a pre-test and post-test of the Asthma General Knowledge Questionnaire for Adults (AGKQA) questionnaire. All the scores were then compared to determine the efficacy of educational content on the levels of asthma knowledge. The results of descriptive statistics reported that the pretest scores of AGKQA from the control group (minimum, maximum, and mean) were 9, 25, and 19.04±2.56, respectively, and post-test scores were 10, 27, and 18.79±3.59 (p=0.47). Meanwhile, in the treatment group, these were 13, 25, and 19.11±2.87, while post-test scores were 16, 31, 23.6±3.95 (p=0.01). Additionally, there was a difference between the post-test scores of the control and treatment groups, namely 4.81 (p=0.01). The educational content of the app significantly improved the levels of asthma knowledge.

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AsthmaMobile ApplicationsTelemedicineAdultHumansSurveys and QuestionnairesAGKQAasmadroidasthmaasthma appasthma knowledge

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PMID35815086
PMCPMC9262265

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