Mobile Phone Text for Optimizing Asthma Treatment
Mobile Phone Text for Optimizing Asthma Treatment
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.
Inclusion Criteria:

 -  asthmatics

 Exclusion Criteria:

 -  below 18 and above 45

 -  COPD patients

 -  no mobile phone

 -  not using the prescribed asthma inhalation medication