An Asthma Self-management App (ANASA) - Evaluating a tailored solution for people with asthma.

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The NHS is faced with many threats across the board, a key challenge is helping the 5.4 million peoplewith asthma manage their illness. Asthma cannot be cured but its symptoms can be controlled, throughself-management and adhering to medication. Engaging in these behaviours/actions alleviates symptomsof asthma and improves individuals quality of life. However, 3.78 million people are not properlymanaging their asthma, because of this individuals are often tolerating unnecessary symptoms, reducingtheir quality of life and risking triggering a life threatening exacerbation. A solution to this is byempowering individuals with a mobile-app to help guide self-management, to address the barriers andneeds of the chronic illness. Thus, this PhD project will look to introduce AN Asthma Self-managementApp (ANASA) to facilitate self-management for people with asthma. ANASA will look to alleviate thebarriers that are reducing the effectiveness of the patient's ability to manage their asthma. The ANASAproject will be grounded by the COM-B model, a theoretical model that evaluates interventions andsupports behaviour change. It will integrate approaches from psychology and health care to develop aninterdisciplinary intervention. To achieve this, the primary aim of the proposed PhD is to propose aneffective mobile-app that will guide people with asthma to self-manage their condition. This will beachieved by exploring: (1) the barriers of asthma self-management, (2) identify the most appropriate appfor people with asthma and (3) implement the digital technology to minimise them.