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

NHS面临着许多威胁，一个关键的挑战是帮助540万哮喘患者管理他们的疾病。哮喘无法治愈，但通过自我管理和坚持药物治疗，其症状可以得到控制。参与这些行为/行动可以减轻哮喘的症状，提高个人的生活质量。然而，有378万人没有妥善管理他们的哮喘，因为这些人经常忍受不必要的症状，降低他们的生活质量，并有可能引发危及生命的恶化。解决这个问题的一个办法是通过一个移动应用程序来帮助个人指导自我管理，解决慢性病的障碍和需求。因此，这个博士项目将引入一个哮喘自我管理应用程序（ANASA），以促进哮喘患者的自我管理。ANASA将寻求缓解降低患者管理哮喘能力有效性的障碍。ANASA项目将以COM-B模型为基础，这是一种评估干预措施和支持行为改变的理论模型。它将整合心理学和卫生保健的方法，以开发跨学科的干预措施。为了实现这一目标，拟议中的博士学位的主要目标是提出一个有效的移动应用程序，将指导哮喘患者自我管理他们的病情。这将通过探索：（1）哮喘自我管理的障碍，（2）确定哮喘患者最合适的应用程序和（3）实施数字技术来最大限度地减少这些障碍。

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.