title: [Patients with asthma: Disease control, patients' perceptions and observance. Results of the French REALISE™ survey].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Poor adherence to treatment is a cause of inadequate asthma control and increased exacerbations. Better understanding of the factors associated with adherence could lead to recognition of appropriate solutions.
  
  
  METHODS
  An online, quantitative, self-completed questionnaire-based survey was conducted among 1024 French adults with asthma (aged 18-50years). Data were collected on socio-demographic characteristics, asthma control, patient perception of the disease and adherence.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Only 11% of asthma patients considered that their asthma is uncontrolled while 48% were uncontrolled according to the GINA criteria. More than half (56%) of respondents admitted not taking their maintenance therapy every day. The perception that asthma was well controlled and lack of impact of the disease on daily activities were the most common reasons cited (46% of respondents) for not taking maintenance therapy. The other main reasons cited were forgetting and use only during symptomatic periods (21% and 14% of respondents, respectively).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Adult asthma patients tend to overestimate their level of asthma control. Improving the management of asthma requires systematic detection of respiratory symptoms, awareness of the patient that asthma is a chronic disease and improved physician assessment of patients' expectations and perception of their disease.
authors.affiliation: Service des maladies respiratoires, université de Bordeaux, hôpital Haut-Lévêque, CHU de Bordeaux, U897, 33076 Bordeaux, France. Electronic address: chantal.raherison@chu-bordeaux.fr.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Raherison
authors.affiliation: Éditions PM Santé, 92380 Garches, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mayran
authors.affiliation: Laboratoires Mundipharma, 100, avenue de Suffren, 75015 Paris, France.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jeziorski
authors.affiliation: Université catholique de Louvain, 1200 Brussels, Belgique.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Deccache
authors.affiliation: Pôle des voies respiratoires, hôpital Larrey, CHU de Toulouse, 31000 Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Didier
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001249:Asthma / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010349:Patient Compliance / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010465:Perception; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Asthma; Asthme; Compliance; Enquête; Observance; Patient's perception; Perception du patient; Survey