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

Direction Centrale du Service de Santé des Armées

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Allergy Penicillin

Treatments: Other: Interview

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06112470

2022PPRC02

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

20 participants in 1 patient group

Interview

Description:

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.

Treatment:

Other: Interview