Guarnieri, G.; Caminati, M.; Achille, A.; Vaia, R.; Chieco Bianchi, F.; Senna, G.; Vianello, A. Severe Asthma, Telemedicine, and Self-Administered Therapy: Listening First to the Patient. J. Clin. Med.2022, 11, 960.
Guarnieri, G.; Caminati, M.; Achille, A.; Vaia, R.; Chieco Bianchi, F.; Senna, G.; Vianello, A. Severe Asthma, Telemedicine, and Self-Administered Therapy: Listening First to the Patient. J. Clin. Med. 2022, 11, 960.
Guarnieri, G.; Caminati, M.; Achille, A.; Vaia, R.; Chieco Bianchi, F.; Senna, G.; Vianello, A. Severe Asthma, Telemedicine, and Self-Administered Therapy: Listening First to the Patient. J. Clin. Med.2022, 11, 960.
Guarnieri, G.; Caminati, M.; Achille, A.; Vaia, R.; Chieco Bianchi, F.; Senna, G.; Vianello, A. Severe Asthma, Telemedicine, and Self-Administered Therapy: Listening First to the Patient. J. Clin. Med. 2022, 11, 960.
Abstract
Severe asthma patients are at increased risk of major exacerbations and they need to be monitored regularly. The COVID-19 pandemic has impressively impacted on the health care resources. The telemedicine approach applied to the follow-up of asthmatic patients has been proved to be effective in monitoring their disease and adherence to the therapy. The aim of our study was to investigate the satisfaction of severe asthma patients, before the activation of a telemedicine management complemented by a standard of care. An ad hoc questionnaire was developed and sent by e-mail to 180 severe asthma patients. Most of subjects (82%) were confident with the idea of doing self-measurements and self-managing their disease; 77% of subjects favoured to carry out virtual visit and telemedicine. 93% of patients considered easy the self-injection therapy. 94% of subjects felt safe and 93% were not worried while self-administering. Only mild adverse events were reported in 22% subjects after self-administration. Our results showed an agreement between what is considered necessary and practicable by healthcare personnel and what is perceived by the severe asthma patients, in terms of treatment and monitoring of the disease with Telehealth. Biologics have a safety profile and can be easily self-administred at home
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