The IMP²ART study forms the preliminary phase of a research programme aiming to develop a whole systems approach to help general practices embed supported self-management into routine asthma care.
The study involves 3 distinct but complimentary strands of work
1.) A ROUTINE DATA STUDY to test the feasibility of extracting data on asthma care from routinely collected electronic health records.
Data relating to asthma care has been extracted electronically from the health records of 500 people with active asthma. In order to assess the validity of electronically extracted data, a comparison is being made with the same data extracted by manual inspection of the electronic health record (the gold standard).
Progress
- Ten general practices across England and Scotland recruited.
- Electronic data extractions completed.
- Manual extractions underway. To be completed by August.
- Comparison and analysis planned to start in August.
2.) A QUALITATIVE STUDY to explore the best ways of enabling supported self-management to be fully adopted in routine practice through focus groups and interviews with patients, general practitioners, nurses and practice staff.
Progress
- Response rate to invitations has been good. Interviews and focus groups are ongoing and are due to be complete in August.
- Data analysis and refinements of the topic guide are on ongoing iterative processes.
- An abstract, reporting early data, has been submitted to the Primary Care Respiratory Society UK.
3.) A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW of existing research into professional education interventions in asthma and diabetes to inform the development of an educational package for professionals.
Progress
- Protocol developed, and submitted to BMJ Open for publication.
- Searches completed with a total of 16,000 hits returned.
- Initial title and abstract screening completed.
- Full text screening completed with data extraction ongoing.
- Scoping review of grey literature is ongoing.
- Analysis due September-October 2016.
A final report and publications from the PDG studies are planned for October.
The findings from these three studies will inform an application for a Programme Grant in which we will develop and evaluate an intervention to implement supported asthma self-management in routine primary care.
Find out more about IMP²ART on the project page.