Qualitative Assessment of Patients Suffering From Difficult Asthma

NCT05185375 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: RECHMPL21_0727
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 40
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease, resulting from environmental, genetic and immunological factors. This is a triad specific to the diseases of the 21st century, linked to our environment, which the investigators thought were perfectly characterized and stable and which presents us with new challenges in their management. Our environment has not stopped changing over the past 30 years, so has our way of life and our way of working. The early detection of asthma and the initiation of an adequate therapy are most often carried out by primary care physicians, such as the general practitioner and the general pediatrician. These practitioners find themselves confronted with the medical complexity of asthma which essentially resides in the management of severe forms of asthma, defined by the high therapeutic charge needed to obtain a good control of the disease and, sometimes, in the management of difficult asthma which is an uncontrolled asthma independently of the patients' compliance and of the prescribed therapies. While general practitioners refer many cases of asthma to hospital experts, the investigators wanted to address the issue of difficult asthma, the management of which is less codified. The main objective of this work is to identify, by a qualitative analysis of medical records, the profiles of patients referred for difficult asthma in a tertiary hospital in order, secondly, to target individual characteristics or subgroups on which therapeutic actions could be implemented, and to provide educational support for doctors.

Conditions

Asthma

Keywords

Severe, difficult-to-treat asthma; Difficult Asthma; Diagnosis; Comorbidities; Treatment; Allergy; Compliance

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Qualitative analysis of the medical records

  Qualitative analysis of the medical records from patients addressed to a tertiary hospital for difficult asthma

  day 1

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 5 Years - 99 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Patients consulting in the Respiratory Diseases outpatients Unit of the Arnaud de Villeneuve Hospital with a diagnosis of difficult-to-treat asthma

You may qualify if:

• Patients assessed for difficult asthma, from December 2015 to November 2020, at the University Hospital of Montpellier
• Patients aged from 5 to 99 years

You may not qualify if:

• Patients not affiliated to French Social Security
• Patients not capable of understanding French
• Patients who don't have a diagnosis of difficult asthma

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University Hospital, Montpellier: lead

Study Sites (1)

Uhmontpellier

Montpellier, 34295, France

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Asthma; Disease; Hypersensitivity; Patient Compliance

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Bronchial Diseases; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Lung Diseases, Obstructive; Lung Diseases; Respiratory Hypersensitivity; Hypersensitivity, Immediate; Immune System Diseases; Pathologic Processes; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Patient Acceptance of Health Care; Treatment Adherence and Compliance; Health Behavior; Behavior

Study Officials

• Davide CAIMMI

  University Hospital, Montpellier

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Davide CAIMMI, MD, PhD

CONTACT

467336112; davide.caimmi@gmail.com

Pascal DEMOLY, MD, PhD

CONTACT

467336107; pascal.demoly@inserm.fr

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: CASE ONLY
• Time Perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 22, 2021
• First Posted: January 11, 2022
• Study Start: October 1, 2021
• Primary Completion: January 1, 2022
• Study Completion: April 1, 2022
• Last Updated: January 11, 2022

Record last verified: 2021-12

Locations

FR (1)