Opinion of Patients Under Treatment That Meets the Criteria of New Treatment Strategy According to GINA 2006

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00695357

Acronym

EPAGGELIA

Enrollment

832

Registered

2008-06-11

Start date

2008-04-30

Completion date

2008-06-30

Last updated

2009-04-30

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Conditions

GINA 2006, New Strategies, Patient Opinion

Keywords

Asthma treatment, GINA 2006, patient perception

Brief summary

Cross-sectional, one visit study. All the data will be collected through questionnaires. Descriptives statistics will be applied to the data. 832 patients will participate to the study and 104 physicians.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

CASE_ONLY

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Patients diagnosed with persistent asthma (GINA 2005) for at least 6 months before entering the study * Patients who are under treatment according to the new strategies described in GINA 2006 for at least 3 months before entering the study

Exclusion criteria

* Patients who are not willing to sign the Informed Consent Form * COPD Patients

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Percentage (%) of Asthma treatment satisfaction and control grading	single visit / once

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Rate of treatment compliance	single visit / once
Patients quality of life under treatment	single visit / once

Countries

Greece

Outcome results