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Filter by:SIMAP is a triple-masked randomised trial aimed at assessing whether an automated system of pictograms associated to medical indications results in better comprehension and adherence of said indications. Adult patients with a recent diagnosis of asthma will be randomised to receive a pictographic depiction of their treatments and recommended interventions or standard communication without assistance from their attending physician. Patients will be followed-up for 60 days using the Asthma Control Questionnaire (ACT). The primary endpoint of this study is the degree of asthma control as assessed by the aforementioned questionnaire. Secondary outcomes include the number of hospitalisations, emergency care unit visits and the need to increase bronchodilator therapy as per current Global Initiative for Asthma guidelines. Outcomes will be analysed under the intention-to-treat principle by a statistician unaware of treatment allocation.
The primary goal of this project is to determine the feasibility, acceptability, and adherence of a smartphone application for improving asthma self-management in a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT). The app is specifically designed to appeal to adolescents. Adolescents with persistent asthma will be randomized to receive: 1) standard-of-care or 2) the self-management app in addition to standard-of-care. Feasibility will be assessed by the ability to recruit and retain subjects, technical barriers to implementation, and the appropriateness of the intervention among adolescents and providers. The acceptability of the intervention will be determined by appraising perceived usefulness, entertainment, and ease of use of the app. Adherence to usage of the app over a 6-month period will be assessed by examining the frequency of app usage and the features that were used, and the extent of data regarding self-management that was entered. A secondary objective is to obtain preliminary estimates of effectiveness of the app on clinical outcomes (ACT score, spirometry, CHSA-C, exacerbations, and medication adherence) relative to standard-of-care. It is hypothesized that the app will result in a high level of adherence and will be a feasible and acceptable intervention to improve self-management among adolescents with persistent asthma.
Social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic could lead to clinical and functional deterioration of people living with chronic respiratory diseases (CRD). As they are considered risk group for COVID-19, it is not recommended that they leave their house and have interaction with people outside. Thus, most of them have not been attend Pulmonary Rehabilitation sections since the beginning of pandemic, neither exercising outdoor, experiencing drastic restrictions in their activities of daily living. It is well known that low level of physical activity in daily life (PADL) in this population is related to poor prognosis, including higher chance of hospitalization due to exacerbation and mortality. Therefore, the aim of this study is to evaluate the short- and mid-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the clinical, physical and functional conditions and the PADL level of people living with CRD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma and interstitial lung diseases). Participants will be assessed during the social isolation period and they will be reassessed immediately after release from social isolation. Thus, the subjects will be followed-up during 12 months to record symptoms, functional status, quality of life, exacerbations and hospitalizations. The researchers' hypothesis is that those patients will present very low level of PADL in association to sedentarism, poor functional status, more symptoms of dyspnoea, anxiety and depression, poor sleep quality and, consequently, will present more episodes of acute exacerbation of the disease and more hospital admission during the study protocol.
Nowadays, the COVID-19 epidemic causes stress not only to healthy people but also to people with unhealthy conditions. Excess psychological stress (either in quality, quantity, frequency, and/or duration) could push susceptible individuals to ultimately develop clinical asthma. Depression was significantly associated with asthma interference with daily activities, breathlessness, night symptoms, use of bronchodilators, and poor compliance with medical treatment. Covid-19 pandemic induced the countries around the world to require from its citizens not to ask for health care support rather than in emergency situations and through utilizing telemedicine. This action aims to control spreading the infection with viruses as well as to reduce the workload on the healthcare providers. Although asthma is not listed as one of the chronic conditions that might complicate coronavirus infections, asthma people might have a high-stress level that might induce their asthma attack which consequentially reflects on their quality of life. People with asthma have a unique experience rather than people with other health conditions during COVID-19. Patients with asthma experience a lot of stressors that might induce asthma and impaired their HRQOL such as overuse of antiseptic substances, stay home with a sedentary lifestyle, the sudden shift to telemedicine, and electronic work from home. Also, as a result of the similarity of asthma symptoms with coronavirus symptoms, the patient might have a continuous sense of uncertainty that s/he is infected with the COVID-19 virus, and this suspicion can increase the psychological overburden on these patients. Therefore, all these stressors should be evaluated to recognize their health needs and the kind of social and health support that should be provided to them during the pandemic time. Also, Identifying the predictors of HRQOL among patients with asthma during the pandemic of COVID-19 is urgently required.
The SECOND SOUFFLE survey focuses on aspects of care and quality of life in a period when the landscape of severe asthma is changing in the context of biotherapies. Moreover survey on care pathway and quality of life of the asthmatic severe population according to their phenotype have never been done. It is likely to bring results in a relatively fast time, results that can lead to guide the criteria collected in RAMSES a national severe asthma cohort and future research tracks of this cohort.
A prospective, observational, interventional, single-blind study (blinded for a clinician in the field of inflammatory parameters). The aim of the study is evaluation of the usefulness of induced sputum eosinophilia and other inflammatory indices [exhaled nitric oxide (NO), exhaled breath temperature, bronchial hyperresponsiveness] in predicting the failure of treatment reduction with inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) in stable asthma in children and adolescents. In participants with a stable course of the asthma (confirmed in the run -in period), every 3 months the dose of ICS is halved (according to GINA guidelines) until the control is lost or the lowest daily ICS dose is reached (200 mcg, calculated as budesonide equivalent). Throughout the treatment reduction period, the participants run an observation card (clinical symptoms) and peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) measurements. Clinical evaluation is performed every month, with spirometry, exhaled NO and exhaled breath temperature measurements. Before the reduction and then one month after the change of treatment, the hyperresponsiveness measurement is carried out with the sputum induction (combined method using hypertonic saline), and 2 months after the change of treatment with the exercise challenge test. In the case of loss of asthma control, beta-mimetic will be administered (temporarily) and return to dose of ICS before reduction or further increase of treatment is planned. In severe asthma exacerbations, oral steroids will be considered. The study is observational: treatment is modified according to GINA guidelines based on clinical data as part of routine medical care. Only difference compared do standard care is supplementary inflammation evaluation (exhaled NO, sputum eosinophilia, bronchial hyperreactivity).