ASTHMA CONTROL COST-UTILITY RANDOMIZED TRIAL EVALUATION.
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Asthma
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 720
Inclusion Criteria
1. Age 18-50 yr;
2. Doctors diagnosis of asthma;
Exclusion Criteria
1. Daily or alternate day oral corticosteroid therapy within 1 month before entering the study;
2. Inability to understand written or oral Dutch instructions;
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pharmaco-economics:<br /><br>1. Net health benefit;<br /><br>2. Cost-effectiveness;<br /><br>3. Cost-utility.<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Patient preferences; <br /><br>2. Compliance;<br /><br>3. Asthma related quality of life; <br /><br>4. The number of limited activity days; <br /><br>5. Exacerbations;<br /><br><br /><br /><br>Preplanned subgroupanalyses:<br /><br>1. Smokers vs. Non-smokers;<br /><br>2. Asthma control at baseline subdivided into strict, partly, or uncontrolled by Juniper Asthma Control Questionnaire scores of respectively <0.75, 0.75-1.5, >1.5 (Juniper et al. Resp.Med.2006);<br /><br>3. Exhaled Nitric Oxide status at baseline, subdivided into low(<25), medium(25-50) and high(>50));<br /><br>4. Allergic vs. non-allergic Asthma;<br /><br>5. BMI < 30 vs BMI > 30.