Asthma, Smoking, Emotional Deficits

Completed

• Conditions: Asthma; Alexithymia; Emotional Disorder
• Interventions: Other: Interview and tests of drawing.

• Registration Number: NCT03312673
• Lead Sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon

Brief Summary

The objective of the study is to determine whether poor control of asthma is related to an emotional deficit such as alexithymia. The hypothesis is that there is a correlation between the severity of asthma, its control, and the degree of emotional deficits.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2017-10-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-10-12
• Study First Posted: 2017-10-18
• Study Start: 2017-11-22
• Primary Completion: 2019-05-10
• Study Completion: 2019-05-10
• Status Verified: 2019-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-10-11
• Last Update Posted: 2019-10-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 70

Inclusion Criteria

• Men and women (> 18 years).
• Asthma (mild, moderate, severe).
• Beneficiary of social security

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Exclusion Criteria

• Pregnant women
• Patients who oppose their participation in the study
• Multiple drug users (psychoactive substances).
• Patients with severe psychiatric antecedents and comorbidities.
• Patients with cancer
• Patients with cognitive impairment
• Patients with speech, hearing, visual, and praxic disorders.
• Any chronic and especially respiratory pathology other than asthma (COPD, bronchiectasis), which can alter the study.
• Patients not speaking French
• Persons protected by law

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Asthma population	Interview and tests of drawing.	Patients (men and women) asthmatic smokers and non-smokers followed routinely in the pulmonology department, Croix-Rousse Hospital, Hospices Civils of Lyon.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Poor control of asthma	During routine visit (one hour and a half)	The poor asthma control is defined by a score \<20 on the ACT test
Emotional deficit such as alexithymia	During routine visit (one hour and a half)	Defined by a score ≥ 44 points/100 on the Toronto scale
Emotional deficit indicator traces	During routine visit (one hour and a half)	Identifying indicator traces of emotional deficits according to the dimensions defining the alexithymia on the test of the tree and the drawing of the person
Anxiety	During routine visit (one hour and a half)	Defined by a score ≥ 11 points on the HADS scale
Depression	During routine visit (one hour and a half)	Defined by a score ≥ 11 points on the HADS scale
Emotional valences	During routine visit (one hour and a half)	Defined by 8 scores distinct on Diener's subjective well-being scale

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Service de Pneumologie Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse; 🇫🇷 Lyon, France