Table 1 Overall scope and dimension of the surveys
From: Asthma out of control? A structured review of recent patient surveys
Study name | Country | Objective | Population | Design | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MORI/EFA [12] | France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Spain | Family QoL impact | Parents | Face-to-face interview. International comparison | 1999–2002 |
TARGET [11] | Italy | Symptoms, causes, treatment | HCPs, parents | Face-to-face interviews, with physicians and patients (adults and children). Advisory board-driven | 2002 |
AIRLife [13] | Germany | Efficacy/patient preferences | HCPs, parents | Telephone interviews with physicians and adult patients. Face-to-face interviews with asthmatic children and parents of asthmatic children | 1999 |
National Paediatric Asthma [14] | Spain | Attitudes/QoL | Parents of young children | Face-to-face interviews with parents of children with asthma (aged 2–5 years) | 2000 |
ASTHMA [6] | Belgium | +/- montelukast | GP/parents | GPs interviewed asthma patients before and then at least 4 weeks after treatment with montelukast | 2001 |
ASTEQ/ASTHMA [15] | France | Symptoms while using ICS. Perception of control | Prescribers/patients/(children in subset) | Anonymous questionnaire of physicians and patients including a small pediatric substudy conducted at 20 asthma schools with 300 children (aged 2–14) | 1999/2003 |
NOP/GPnet [16] | Great Britain | BTS guidelines impact | GPs/nurses/parents | Postal questionnaire, GPs, nurses and parents of children with asthma | 2002 |
UK AIR [17] | Great Britain | Asthma control | GPs/nurses/children/parents | Questionnaire of patients, telephone interviews with practice nurses, face-to-face interviews of GPs | 1997 |
Finnish AIR [18] | Finland | Asthma control | GPs/nurses/adult patients/children/parents | Postal questionnaire | 2000 |
Danish AIR [19] | Denmark | Reality asthma control (2 year) | Patients | Postal questionnaire | 2000–2002 |
Norwegian AIR [20] | Norway | Reality asthma control | Patients/GPs | Postal questionnaire of patients, telephone interview of GPs | 2000–2001 |
ALMA [21] | Sweden | Reality asthma control | Patients/GPs | Telephone interviews with adult asthma patients. Questionnaire for GPs with similar questions | 2000–2001 |
AIRE [22] | France, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden | How are treatment guidelines truly being applied/perceptions | Patients/children | Telephone interviews with adult asthma patients (randomly selected) | 1999 |
ECRHS [7] | 14 countries (including Canada) | Follow up on asthma development and use of services | Patients | Administered questionnaire | 1990–2000 |
ECRHSII [23] | 10 EU countries | Perception of severity, impact on society | Patients | Telephone interviews (randomly selected). Advisory-board driven | 1999 |
Living and Breathing [24] | UK | Symptoms/control | Patients | Face-to-face interviews | 2001 |
RESPONSE [25] | Germany, Spain, Great Britain | True symptom control, QoL, drug use | Adults/juveniles | Face-to-face interviews | 2001 |
ACE [26] | UK | Treatment (ICS) benefit perceptions | Patients at pharmacies | Face-to-face interviews | 2002 |
Asthma in America [27] | USA | Asthma in USA (misc.) | Adults, HCPs (physicians, nurses, pharmacists) | Telephone interviews (randomly selected) | 2001 |
Asthma [28] | Finland | National impact snapshot | Patients | Review | 1998 |
Psychology/Health and Medicine [29] | Sweden | Comparing assessment methodologies | Patients | Questionnaire-based survey | 2003 |
AJN [30] | USA | Assessment/outcome tools | Children/parents | Review | 2002 |
Illness Management Survey [31] | USA | Barriers to juvenile treatment (questionnaire support) | Juveniles | Questionnaire-based survey. Focus on compliance in highly noncompliant subset | 2003 |
HUNAIR [32] | Hungary | Cost, morbidity, control | Children/adults | Questionnaire-based survey | 1998–1999 |