Qualitative Assessment of Patients Suffering From Difficult Asthma

• Conditions: Asthma

• Registration Number: NCT05185375
• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Montpellier

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2021-10-01
• Status Verified: 2021-12
• Study First Submitted: 2021-12-22
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-12-22
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-12-22
• Primary Completion: 2022-01-01
• Study First Posted: 2022-01-11
• Last Update Posted: 2022-01-11
• Study Completion: 2022-04-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 40

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Qualitative analysis of the medical records	day 1	Qualitative analysis of the medical records from patients addressed to a tertiary hospital for difficult asthma

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Uhmontpellier; 🇫🇷 Montpellier, France