Chronic breathlessness Respiratory
Conditions
Interventions
This study will have four phases:
Phase A: Individual semi-structured interviews with patients with breathlessness, informal carers of patients with breathlessness and health professionals will be fol
Sponsors
University of Cambridge
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 110 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Stakeholder Reference Group (SRG) members inclusion criteria: 1. Any member of the SRG who is a patient, carer, primary care health professional or specialist breathlessness service health professional 2. Aged 18+ years 3. Able to provide informed consent 4. Living or working in England Patient and carer (family or friend) inclusion criteria: 1. Experience of chronic breathlessness in the last year, either personally or through a caring role 2. Patient registered with any of the three recruited general practices 3. Able to participate in one or more phases of the co-design research study 4. Able to provide informed consent 5. Aged 18+ years Patients and carers who do not speak English are eligible; professional translation services will be available for written material, consent and research conversations. Patient-carer dyads will be recruited when both a patient and their carer are interested in taking part. Equally, each can take part without the inclusion of the other. Primary care health professional inclusion criteria: 1. Working clinically within any of the three recruited general practices 2. Interested in being trained to deliver a breathlessness intervention 3. Able to provide informed consent 4. Aged 18+ years
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Participant aged under 18 years 2. Participant cannot provide informed consent 3. Primary care health professionals working in a discipline that does not require health professional qualification (eg social prescriber) 4. Patients (and their carers) will not be approached to take part when considered by their clinical team to be likely to be in their last 3 months of life 5. Carers will be excluded if their patient has been recruited to the study and does not consent to carer inclusion; this will be explained sensitively
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. First version of an electronic consultation guide for health professionals delivering the intervention generated by a thematic analysis of qualitative data from participant interviews and focus groups; 2. Plain English version of the Breathing Thinking Functioning (BTF) model amended from the existing health professional version using qualitative data from participant interviews and focus groups; 3. Self-management website for use as an intervention adjunct, with associated paper-based resources for people without digital access, created by refining a researcher-generated website using qualitative data from participant interviews and focus groups. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| There are no secondary outcome measures | — |
Countries
United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed