Question

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

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.

Questions

1 Is this questionnaire disease specific or general?

2) could the patients students, homemakers and retirees.  answer the questionnaire

3) were the outcomes this questionnaire captures relevant to Rheumatoid Arthritis ?

300 words each question no plagiarism please no bullet points

Answer 1

Questions

1) Is this questionnaire disease specific or general?

Answer: Yes, this questionnaire is disease-specific. Geolocated users assess their routine symptom management by tapping on 5 consecutive VAS scores (i.e., general, nasal, ocular, asthma, and job symptoms) with their smartphone's touchscreen feature. Users use a scroll list of all country-specific over - the-counter drugs and prescribed drugs available for each country to enter their regular medicines. The information management system statistics were added to the list. Included in user-reported days with or without medication. And they asking the questions like nasal, ocular, asthma symptoms of Allergic rhinitis.

2) could the patient's students, homemakers, and retirees.  answer the questionnaire

Answer: Yes. they can answer the questions. Because they are also may have the disease or symptoms. Most of the participants had symptoms and also all the registered users are included in this study.

3) were the outcomes this questionnaire captures relevant to Rheumatoid Arthritis?

Answer: No, the questionnaire is not relevant to the Rheumatoid Arthritis. It is fully related to Allergic Rhinitis.