PackHealth: Asthma Engagement Tool

Patient engagement is a critical part of improving patient care and outcomes. Current patient engagement strategies only focus on the patient-physician interaction and have been shown to be ineffective. The need for a comprehensive approach to patient engagement is no different among patients with asthma as it is in any other chronic condition. Patients with asthma must make complicated health decisions daily that impact their social and occupational activities, quality of life, and treatment adherence. Obtaining, communicating, processing, and understanding non- biased health information are crucial in making appropriate and informed treatment decisions. Pack Health LLC and Duke will develop a patient engagement toolkit known as "Packs" to help empower and engage patients. These disease-specific, evidence-based kits are scientifically designed to improve patient involvement in their own care. Each Pack draws on the science of change management and patient activation and contains three categories of materials