Asthma, Smoking, Emotional Deficits (ASTADEM)

Civil Hospices of Lyon

Status: Completed

Conditions: Alexithymia; Emotional Disorder; Asthma

Treatments: Other: Interview and tests of drawing.

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03312673

69HCL17_0159

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of the study is to determine whether poor control of asthma is related to an emotional deficit such as alexithymia. The hypothesis is that there is a correlation between the severity of asthma, its control, and the degree of emotional deficits.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Men and women (> 18 years).
• Asthma (mild, moderate, severe).
• Beneficiary of social security

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnant women
• Patients who oppose their participation in the study
• Multiple drug users (psychoactive substances).
• Patients with severe psychiatric antecedents and comorbidities.
• Patients with cancer
• Patients with cognitive impairment
• Patients with speech, hearing, visual, and praxic disorders.
• Any chronic and especially respiratory pathology other than asthma (COPD, bronchiectasis), which can alter the study.
• Patients not speaking French
• Persons protected by law

Trial design

70 participants in 1 patient group

Asthma population

Description:

Patients (men and women) asthmatic smokers and non-smokers followed routinely in the pulmonology department, Croix-Rousse Hospital, Hospices Civils of Lyon.

Treatment:

Other: Interview and tests of drawing.