Tinschert, PeterPeterTinschertBarata, FilipeFilipeBarataKowatsch, TobiasTobiasKowatschLeimeister, Jan MarcoBrenner, Walter2023-04-132023-04-132017-02-14https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/102623The personal and financial burden of asthma highly depends on a patient’s disease self-management skill. Scalable mHealth apps, designed to empower patients, have the potential to play a crucial role in asthma disease management. However, the actual clinical efficacy of mHealth asthma apps is poorly understood due to the lack of both methodologically sound research and accessible evidence-based apps. We therefore apply design science with the goal to design, implement and evaluate a mHealth app for people with asthma, the Mobile Asthma Companion (MAC). The current prototype of MAC delivers health literacy knowledge triggered by nocturnal cough rates. We conclude by proposing a randomized controlled trial to test the efficacy of our prototype.enAsthma ControlmHealth AppsAsthma Disease Managementconference paper