Health-Related Quality of Life of Patients With Asthma and Its Associated Factors During the Pandemic of COVID-19
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 200
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Asthma Control Questionnaire (ACQ)
研究概览
简要总结
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.
详细描述
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the lower respiratory tract which derives from a combination of genetic predisposition with environmental exposure to several factors. It is a chronic respiratory disease that results in morbidity, mortality, and impaired health-related quality of life (HRQoL). It is estimated that 334 million people have asthma worldwide.
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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Case Only
- 时间视角
- Cross Sectional
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Participant's age: 18 years or older
- •medically diagnosed with bronchial asthma
排除标准
- •not medically diagnosed with asthma by a physician
研究组 & 干预措施
Patient with asthma
结局指标
主要结局
Asthma Control Questionnaire (ACQ)
时间窗: One week
ACQ has a multidimensional construct assessing symptoms (5 items--self-administered) and rescue in bronchodilator use (1 item-self-administered), and FEV1% (1 item) completed by clinic staff, but it will not be applied in the current study as it will be difficult to be self-reported by the participants. 7-point scale (0=no impairment, 6= maximum impairment for symptoms. Scores range between 0 (totally controlled) and 6 (severely uncontrolled).
次要结局
- Mini Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire(two weeks)
研究者
Naglaa Fathy Afifi Youssef
Assistant professor
Cairo University