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Table 4 Types of Personalised Asthma Action Plans issued, reviewed and owned by study group

From: The ‘vicious cycle’ of personalised asthma action plan implementation in primary care: a qualitative study of patients and health professionals’ views

Study group

Type of Personalised Asthma Action Plans

 

Owned by patient(s)

Issued or reviewed by professionals

1

Peak flow based ‘wee handbook’ - type unknown. Patient could not recall and did not recognise it from the interviewer selection.

NHS symptom management plans

Asthma UK plans

2

Local NHS long term management plan

Hand written on ‘bits of paper’

NHS short and long term management plans

Asthma UK plan

Asthma UK plans

3

Postcard sized peak flow plan – source unknown as no publisher details shown on plan

Asthma UK plans

NHS symptom and long term management plans

Handwritten plans

4

Desmond Dragon children’s plan

Hand written on note paper

NHS short term management plans

Asthma UK plans

5

Asthma UK plan

Asthma UK plans

Other

Not applicable

Handwritten on ‘bits of paper’ or on patient prescriptions

Asthma UK plans

Drug company asthma plans

NHS local asthma plans (long term management)

 

Across study groups 1–6

Written plans owned by patients:

Written plans issued by professionals*:

Type unknown = 1

Handwritten (6 participants from 4 study groups) on paper (n = 4) or prescriptions (n = 2)

Peak flow based postcard type = 1

Asthma UK plans - 9 participants across all groups

NHS long-term management = 1

NHS asthma plans short, long-term or symptom management - 6 participants from 5 groups

Asthma UK plan = 2

Drug company plan - 1 participant from 1 group

Desmond Dragon = 1

*some professionals gave multiple answers