Desarrollo de un cuestionario para medir los conocimientos del paciente asmático en relación con su enfermedad

Factors Associated With Severe Uncontrolled Asthma and the Perception of Control by Physicians and Patients

“…Physicians also completed an ad hoc questionnaire with the following patient variables, and these data were used to complete the patient's clinical profile and/or were included in the subsequent multivariate analyses: (1) sociodemographic and anthropometric data; (2) physical activity (active: sport or any physical activity >3 times a week; moderately active: 2 or 3 times a week; sedentary: none); (3) smoking habit (smoker [defined as smoker in the 30 days prior to the study, including daily smokers], ex-smoker [<1 year, ≥1 year] or never-smoker); (4) asthma clinical history (date of diagnosis, number of visits to emergency room, admissions and unscheduled visits to primary care for asthma in the last year, days with nocturnal awakenings in the last 4 weeks, average use of rescue medication per week, presence and intensity of cough and/or expectoration, concomitant diseases acting as inflammatory stimuli); (5) clinical tests (FVC, FEV1, total IgE, skin prick tests); (6) current asthma treatment (beclometasone/fluticasone/budesonide/formoterol/salmeterol/montelukast/ theophyllines/omalizumab/others); (7) anxiolytic or antidepressant treatment; and (8) additional evaluations (AQLQ quality of life mini-questionnaire, 12 questionnaire evaluating knowledge of asthma, 13 Hospital Anxiety and Depression [HAD] scale, 14 Nijmegen questionnaire [hyperventilation] 15 ).…”