Alleged Drug Allergies in Military General Medicine: Patients' Experiences and Beliefs

Recruiting

• Conditions: Allergy Penicillin
• Interventions: Other: Interview

• Registration Number: NCT06112470
• Lead Sponsor: Direction Centrale du Service de Santé des Armées

Brief Summary

This study focuses on the experience of the military patient reporting a suspected drug allergy, with its own specificities. Suspicions of drug allergies during a mission expose the doctor to difficulties.

This study will improve understanding of the allergy patient's point of view. The end result could be a set of ideas for measures to raise awareness among these patients, and motivate them to undergo an allergological assessment.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2023-02-28
• Status Verified: 2023-10
• Study First Submitted: 2023-10-26
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-10-31
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-10-31
• Study First Posted: 2023-11-01
• Last Update Posted: 2023-11-01
• Primary Completion: 2024-02
• Study Completion: 2024-03

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 20

Inclusion Criteria

• Military personnel (active or reservist)
• Reporting a drug allergy during a periodic medical check-up or during a consultation in a medical unit
• Not opposed to participating in the study.

Exclusion Criteria

• Candidate on admission visit
• Opposition to study
• Minor (under 18 years of age)
• Pregnant, parturient or breast-feeding woman
• Person deprived of liberty by a judicial or administrative decision, person under psychiatric care
• Non-French nationals
• Person of full age subject to a legal protection measure
• Person unable to express non-opposition

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Interview	Interview	Monocentric qualitative study with a descriptive socio-demographic section, a descriptive qualitative section on the experience and perception of allergy, then on the obstacles to allergological assessment, and finally a descriptive quantitative section to evaluate knowledge of antibiotic therapy.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Patients' experiences of drug allergies	Through study completion (12 months)	describe patients' experiences, perceptions, beliefs and knowledge of drug allergies in general practice in the army

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Patients' obstacles	Through study completion (12 months)	describe the obstacles to allergological assessment

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

15ème antenne médicale - Camp des Matelots; 🇫🇷 Versailles, France