[Asthma education - the patient's response. The results of an automated analysis of an interview].
BACKGROUND
Asthma education is a subject of topical interest and is included in the current guidelines. Everyone agrees on the importance of the concepts of the disease in determining the patient's therapeutic behaviour but there have been few studies of the patient's views on asthma education.


METHODS
42 asthmatics replied to an interview bearing on the following themes: asthma in daily life, therapeutic education and methods of education. The interviews were analysed by the ALCESTE software programme (analysis of co-occurrent lexemes in the simple wording of a text) that extracts the major significant components of a text.


RESULTS
The first theme was dominated by thoughts about treatment, long term rather than acute, and by problems of everyday life and relationships with others; the second by the organisation, presentation and form of education and the third by thoughts about the information required, its relevance and implications.


CONCLUSIONS
Asthmatic patients' concepts of therapeutic education are poorly defined. There expectations are implicit but they are not fully aware of them. Clarifying these factors will be a way of creating a better basis for an educational programme.
Foucaud
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Laboratoire de Sciences de I'Education, équipe du LARSEF, Université Bordeaux 2, France.
Koleck
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Laügt
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Versel
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Taytard
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D000328:Adult; D001249:Asthma / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires