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Efficacy of two educational interventions about inhalation techniques in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). TECEPOC: study protocol for a partially randomized controlled trial (preference trial) Leiva-Fernández, Francisca Leiva-Fernández, José Zubeldia-Santoyo, Fernando García-Ruiz, Antonio J. Prados Torres, Daniel Barnestein-Fonseca, Pilar Enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica - Tratamiento CC BY The objective of this study is to test the efficacy of two educational interventions to improve the inhalation techniques in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Methods: This study uses both a multicenter patients´ preference trial and a comprehensive cohort design with 495 COPD-diagnosed patients selected by a non-probabilistic method of sampling from seven Primary Care Centers. The participants will be divided into two groups and five arms. The two groups are: 1) the patients´ preference group with two arms and 2) the randomized group with three arms. In the preference group, the two arms correspond to the two educational interventions (Intervention A and Intervention B) designed for this study. In the randomized group the three arms comprise: intervention A, intervention B and a control arm. Intervention A is written information (a leaflet describing the correct inhalation techniques). Intervention B is written information about inhalation techniques plus training by an instructor. Every patient in each group will be visited six times during the year of the study at health care center. Discussion: Our hypothesis is that the application of two educational interventions in patients with COPD who are treated with inhaled therapy will increase the number of patients who perform a correct inhalation technique by at least 25 %. We will evaluate the effectiveness of these interventions on patient inhalation technique improvement, considering that it will be adequate and feasible within the context of clinical practice. 2024-02-09T10:46:17Z 2024-02-09T10:46:17Z 2012-05-12 journal article Leiva-Fernández et al.: Efficacy of two educational interventions about inhalation techniques in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). TECEPOC: study protocol for a partially randomized controlled trial (preference trial). Trials 2012 13:64. https://hdl.handle.net/10630/30268 10.1186/1745-6215-13-64 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Attribution 4.0 Internacional BMC