Remote Evaluation and Surveillance of Patients With Interstitial Lung Disease: Transforming ILD Care Delivery With Remote Monitoring (RESPOND-ILD)

June 22, 2026 updated by: Erica Farrand, MD, University of California, San Francisco
The purpose of this interventional study is to identify which combination of remote monitoring devices (e.g. home spirometry, pulse oximetry, scale, ePROs) is the most feasible (as defined by adherence, retention, and data completeness) and acceptable when used for the detection of clinically significant Interstitial Lung Disease events.

Study Overview

Status

Not yet recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Participants in this 12-month study will use home-based monitoring tools provided by the study and complete electronic patient-reported outcome (ePRO) questionnaires to help assess changes in health status over time. Study procedures include weekly home spirometry for all participants, with some participants also asked to complete daily pulse oximetry monitoring and/or weekly weight measurements, depending on study assignment. The study includes an initial in-person baseline visit and a final in-person visit at Month 12 at the UCSF Interstitial Lung Disease Clinic at the Parnassus Campus. Follow-up study visits at Months 3, 6, and 9 will be conducted remotely via Zoom. Participants will complete study-related assessments throughout the study period using electronic devices and questionnaires from home.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

200

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

Study Contact Backup

Study Locations

  • United States
    • California
      • San Francisco, California, United States, 94117
        • University of California, San Francisco

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • age 18 or older
  • English or Spanish speaking
  • have a UCSF diagnosis of one of the major ILD subtypes seen in the ILD Clinic (Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, Chronic Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis, Connective-tissue disease related ILD, Sarcoidosis, Familial Fibrosis). Languages are limited to those for which both device instructional materials and user support are available (written and video). The ILD diagnosis will be based on multidisciplinary conference review, which is the diagnostic gold standard. We have restricted the ILD subtypes to those for which there is efficacy data for RPM or comparable clinical trajectories, and subtypes that account for >10% of the ILD diagnoses seen at UCSF.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients who are unable provide informed consent for any reason or are acutely ill.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Factorial Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Spirometry Only
Participants randomized to Arm 1 will perform home spirometry weekly by completing a spirometry maneuver (inhaling and exhaling through the device mouthpiece). Participants will also complete brief symptom questionnaires electronically throughout the study period.
Behavioral: Home Monitoring in Patients with f-ILD
Participants will be expected to engage in home monitoring using study-provided devices, including a spirometer, pulse oximeter, and/or wireless scale, all of which will be connected to a secure application on the participant's mobile phone for remote data collection and transmission. Participants will also be expected to adhere to scheduled study visits and complete required study activities throughout the study period.
Experimental: Spirometer and Oximeter
Participants randomized to Arm 2 will perform home spirometry weekly by completing a spirometry maneuver (inhaling and exhaling through the device mouthpiece) and will measure oxygen saturation levels daily using a pulse oximeter. Participants will also complete brief electronic symptom questionnaires throughout the study period.
Behavioral: Home Monitoring in Patients with f-ILD
Participants will be expected to engage in home monitoring using study-provided devices, including a spirometer, pulse oximeter, and/or wireless scale, all of which will be connected to a secure application on the participant's mobile phone for remote data collection and transmission. Participants will also be expected to adhere to scheduled study visits and complete required study activities throughout the study period.
Experimental: Spirometer and Scale (weight)
Participants randomized to Arm 3 will perform home spirometry weekly by completing a spirometry maneuver (inhaling and exhaling through the device mouthpiece) and will measure their weight weekly using the wireless scale provided by the study. Participants will also complete brief electronic symptom questionnaires throughout the study period.
Behavioral: Home Monitoring in Patients with f-ILD
Participants will be expected to engage in home monitoring using study-provided devices, including a spirometer, pulse oximeter, and/or wireless scale, all of which will be connected to a secure application on the participant's mobile phone for remote data collection and transmission. Participants will also be expected to adhere to scheduled study visits and complete required study activities throughout the study period.
Experimental: Spirometer, Oximeter, and Scale (weight)
Participants randomized to Arm 4 will perform home spirometry weekly by completing a spirometry maneuver (inhaling and exhaling through the device mouthpiece), measure oxygen saturation levels daily using a pulse oximeter, and measure their weight weekly using the wireless scale provided by the study. Participants will also complete brief electronic symptom questionnaires throughout the study period.
Behavioral: Home Monitoring in Patients with f-ILD
Participants will be expected to engage in home monitoring using study-provided devices, including a spirometer, pulse oximeter, and/or wireless scale, all of which will be connected to a secure application on the participant's mobile phone for remote data collection and transmission. Participants will also be expected to adhere to scheduled study visits and complete required study activities throughout the study period.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Detection rate of clinically significant ILD events
Time Frame: Baseline, Month 12
Measured using a composite endpoint of acute exacerbation, hospitalization, or rapid disease progression, defined as a ≥10% relative decline in FVC over 3 months
Baseline, Month 12
Time to detection of first ILD event
Time Frame: Baseline, Month 12
Measured using a composite endpoint of acute exacerbation, hospitalization, or rapid disease progression, defined as a ≥10% relative decline in FVC over 3 months.
Baseline, Month 12
Adherence
Time Frame: 12 months
Adherence to remote monitoring protocol, defined as the proportion of measurements completed >=67% of weeks with full data entry)
12 months
Retention
Time Frame: 12 months
Primary: Participant retention at 12 months (target >=80%)
12 months
Data Completeness
Time Frame: 12 months
Data completeness, defined as >85% of expected remote monitoring data points successfully transmitted
12 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Change in health-related quality of life
Time Frame: Baseline, Month 12
Measured by administration of King's Brief ILD Questionnaire (K-BILD). K-BILD is a 15-item health status questionnaire with each item reported on a 7-point Likert response scale across three domains: breathlessness and activities, psychological, chest symptoms. The raw scores are logit transformed onto a standardized 0-100 scale, where 100 represents the best health status. The minimally clinically important change difference for the total score is = 5-point change.
Baseline, Month 12
Change in health-related quality of life
Time Frame: Baseline, Month 12
Measured by administration of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale (GAD-7). The GAD-7 scores each of the 7 items on a scale of 0-3 with the total score range from 0-21 with a higher score indicating higher anxiety.
Baseline, Month 12
Change in FVC
Time Frame: Baseline, Month 12
Measured by comparing changes in FVC in home spirometry vs clinic-based spirometry
Baseline, Month 12
Proportion of patients with ≥10% decline in FVC
Time Frame: Baseline, Month 12
Measured by FVC values collected through home spirometry.
Baseline, Month 12
Proportion of patients with a change in ILD-related treatment
Time Frame: Baseline, Month 12
Measured by collecting data on initiation, discontinuation, or dose adjustment of antifibrotic medication, immunosuppressive therapy, oxygen therapy, referral for transplant evaluation, or referral to pulmonary rehabilitation.
Baseline, Month 12
Patient Engagement and Activation
Time Frame: 12 months
Patient engagement and activation, as measured by the Patient Activation Measure (PAM) which assess a patient's knowledge, skill, and confidence for self-managing their health. The 13 items are measured on a 4-point Likert scale, with the raw total transformed into a standardized score of 0-100 where higher scores indicate greater activation.
12 months
Patient-reported Satisfaction
Time Frame: 12 months
Patient-reported satisfaction, acceptability and burden of monitoring as measured by survey adapted from Home Monitoring Acceptance and Satisfaction Questionnaire (HoMASQ). The ten item questionnaire scores each item on a 1-5 Likert scale with the total score ranging from 10 to 50. A higher score means higher patient satisfaction.
12 months
Total implementation cost of home monitoring intervention components (per-patient, US dollars)
Time Frame: 12 month
Total cost of delivering the home monitoring intervention, calculated as the sum of intervention costs (per-unit cost of the home spirometer, pulse oximeter, and/or weight scale, plus electronic patient-reported outcome [ePRO] platform licensing and data transmission fees) and implementation costs (personnel time for device provisioning, patient training, technical support, and clinician review of transmitted data, valued using time-driven activity-based costing and applicable wage rates). Cost will be calculated per patient over the 12-month active monitoring period, in US dollars. Consistent with the factorial MOST design, total cost will be analyzed by main effect - oximeter (Arms 2 and 4 combined vs. Arms 1 and 3 combined) and weight scale (Arms 3 and 4 combined vs. Arms 1 and 2 combined).
12 month
Unintended Implementation Impact
Time Frame: 12 month
Number of unscheduled clinical contacts or escalations triggered by remote monitoring
12 month

Collaborators and Investigators

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Sponsor

University of California, San Francisco

Collaborators

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
patientMpower Ltd.

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Erica Farrand, MD, University of California, San Francisco

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Estimated)

August 1, 2026

Primary Completion (Estimated)

August 1, 2028

Study Completion (Estimated)

August 1, 2028

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

June 15, 2026

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

June 22, 2026

First Posted (Actual)

June 29, 2026

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

June 29, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

June 22, 2026

Last Verified

June 1, 2026

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Other Study ID Numbers

  • 25-44428
  • 5K23HL175213-02 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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