National Asthma Treatment Survey in Australian adults

National Survey of Difficult to Treat and Severe Asthma- a cross-sectional observational study in Australian adults

Status

Not yet recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12620000977976

Enrollment

8000

Registered

2020-09-30

Start date

2020-11-01

Completion date

2020-11-15

Last updated

2020-10-05

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

This project will involve conducting a national, web-based survey of Australian adults with asthma about their health and their treatment, to describe the frequency and burden of symptoms, risk factors, treatments being taken, and use of healthcare services”.

Interventions

This project will involve conducting a national, web-based survey to estimate the prevalence of difficult to treat and severe asthma in the Australian population, to explore their medication use, to quantify mental health issues experienced by people with difficult to treat or severe asthma, any mental health support received, and the impact of COVID-19 The survey will be one-off. The survey was purpose designed for this study. Validated questionnaires will be included where available. These are (to be confirmed): ACT; Kessler/ DASS21/HADS; AIS-6; PAQ4; CARE empathy. The time taken to complete the survey is approx. 10 minutes for those who do not satisfy the definition of difficult to treat or severe asthma, and 15 minutes for those who do.

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Aged 18 years or over Australian resident Current asthma Randomly selected from an existing large web-based Australian survey panel

Exclusion criteria

None. Survey provider verifies participants with multiple integrity processes.

Outcome results