Qualitative Assessment of Patients Suffering From Difficult Asthma

NCT ID: NCT05185375

Last Updated: 2022-01-11

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Total Enrollment: 40 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-10-01
• Study Completion Date: 2022-04-01

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.

Conditions

Asthma

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: CASE_ONLY
• Study Time Perspective: RETROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients assessed for difficult asthma, from December 2015 to November 2020, at the University Hospital of Montpellier
• Patients aged from 5 to 99 years

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients not affiliated to French Social Security
• Patients not capable of understanding French
• Patients who don't have a diagnosis of difficult asthma

• Minimum Eligible Age: 5 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 99 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

University Hospital, Montpellier

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Davide CAIMMI

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University Hospital, Montpellier

Locations

Uhmontpellier

Montpellier, , France

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

France

Central Contacts

Davide CAIMMI, MD, PhD

Role: CONTACT

davide.caimmi@gmail.com

467336112 ext. 33

Pascal DEMOLY, MD, PhD

Role: CONTACT

pascal.demoly@inserm.fr

467336107

Facility Contacts

Davide CAIMMI, MD

Role: primary

davide.caimmi@gmail.com

467336112 ext. 33

Pascal DEMOLY

Role: backup

Other Identifiers

RECHMPL21_0727

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id