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Observational Study
. 2019 Jul;144(1):135-143.e6.
doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2019.01.053. Epub 2019 Apr 3.

Mobile technology offers novel insights into the control and treatment of allergic rhinitis: The MASK study

Annabelle Bédard  1 Xavier Basagaña  1 Josep M Anto  1 Judith Garcia-Aymerich  1 Philippe Devillier  2 Sylvie Arnavielhe  3 Anna Bedbrook  4 Gabrielle L Onorato  4 Wienczyslawa Czarlewski  5 Ruth Murray  6 Rute Almeida  7 Joao Fonseca  7 Elisio Costa  8 Joao Malva  9 Mario Morais-Almeida  10 Ana Margarida Pereira  11 Ana Todo-Bom  12 Enrica Menditto  13 Cristiana Stellato  14 Maria Teresa Ventura  15 Alvaro A Cruz  16 Rafaël Stelmach  17 Jane da Silva  18 Désirée Larenas-Linnemann  19 José M Fuentes-Pérez  20 Yunuen R Huerta-Villalobos  20 Regina Emuzyte  21 Violeta Kvedariene  22 Arunas Valiulis  23 Piotr Kuna  24 Boleslaw Samolinski  25 Ludger Klimek  26 Ralph Mösges  27 Oliver Pfaar  28 Sara Shamai  27 Isabelle Annesi-Maesano  29 Isabelle Bosse  30 Pascal Demoly  31 Jean-François Fontaine  32 Vicky Cardona  33 Joaquim Mullol  34 Antonio Valero  35 Regina E Roller-Wirnsberger  36 Peter Valentin Tomazic  37 Niels H Chavannes  38 Wytske J Fokkens  39 Sietze Reitsma  39 Mike Bewick  40 Dermot Ryan  41 Aziz Sheikh  42 Tari Haahtela  43 Sanna Toppila-Salmi  43 Erkka Valovirta  44 Michael Makris  45 Nikos G Papadopoulos  46 Emmanuel P Prokopakis  47 Fotis Psarros  48 Cemal Cingi  49 Bilun Gemicioğlu  50 Arzu Yorgancioglu  51 Sinthia Bosnic-Anticevich  52 Robyn E O'Hehir  53 Claus Bachert  54 Peter W Hellings  55 Benoit Pugin  56 Carsten Bindslev-Jensen  57 Esben Eller  57 Ingrid Kull  58 Erik Melén  59 Magnus Wickman  60 Gert De Vries  61 Michiel van Eerd  61 Ioana Agache  62 Ignacio J Ansotegui  63 Mark S Dykewicz  64 Thomas Casale  65 Dana Wallace  66 Susan Waserman  67 Daniel Laune  3 Jean Bousquet  68 MASK study group
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Observational Study

Mobile technology offers novel insights into the control and treatment of allergic rhinitis: The MASK study

Annabelle Bédard et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2019 Jul.
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Abstract

Background: Mobile health can be used to generate innovative insights into optimizing treatment to improve allergic rhinitis (AR) control.

Objectives: A cross-sectional real-world observational study was undertaken in 22 countries to complement a pilot study and provide novel information on medication use, disease control, and work productivity in the everyday life of patients with AR.

Methods: A mobile phone app (Allergy Diary, which is freely available on Google Play and Apple stores) was used to collect the data of daily visual analogue scale (VAS) scores for (1) overall allergic symptoms; (2) nasal, ocular, and asthma symptoms; (3) work; and (4) medication use by using a treatment scroll list including all allergy medications (prescribed and over-the-counter) customized for 22 countries. The 4 most common intranasal medications containing intranasal corticosteroids and 8 oral H1-antihistamines were studied.

Results: Nine thousand one hundred twenty-two users filled in 112,054 days of VASs in 2016 and 2017. Assessment of days was informative. Control of days with rhinitis differed between no (best control), single (good control for intranasal corticosteroid-treated days), or multiple (worst control) treatments. Users with the worst control increased the range of treatments being used. The same trend was found for asthma, eye symptoms, and work productivity. Differences between oral H1-antihistamines were found.

Conclusions: This study confirms the usefulness of the Allergy Diary in accessing and assessing behavior in patients with AR. This observational study using a very simple assessment tool (VAS) on a mobile phone had the potential to answer questions previously thought infeasible.

Keywords: Allergic rhinitis; MASK; antihistamines; asthma; conjunctivitis; corticosteroids; mobile health; treatment.

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