A Study for the Assessment of the Words Used by Patients and Physicians to Express Asthma Symptoms

AstraZeneca

Status: Completed

Conditions: Asthma

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT00986219

NIS-RGR-DUM-2009/1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the concordance of the most frequently used words by the patients and the physicians to express asthma symptoms and the limitations of daily activities caused by asthma.

Enrollment: 696 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of persistent asthma treated with inhaled corticosteroid-based maintenance treatment for at least 6 months and followed up by the investigator for at least the same period of time

Exclusion criteria

• Patient with a cardiac disease (congestive heart failure, coronary heart disease)
• Patient with a respiratory disease other than asthma (COPD, sleep apnoea syndrome)

Trial design

696 participants in 1 patient group

Asthma Language between patients and physicians