Table 1.
Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of the participants (n=614)
| Characteristics | |
| Age (years) M±SD* | 32.6±16.9 |
| Age group n (%) | |
| Adolescent | 167 (27.2) |
| Adult | 447 (72.8) |
| Gender n (%) | |
| Female | 397 (64.7) |
| Male | 217 (35.3) |
| Educational level n (%)† | |
| No education completed | 4 (0.7) |
| Primary school | 244 (40.4) |
| High school | 177 (29.3) |
| Qualification above high school (but not university) | 23 (3.8) |
| University | 156 (25.4) |
| Other | 1 (0.2) |
| Marital status n (%)‡ | |
| Single | 348 (56.7) |
| Married/living as a couple | 223 (36.3) |
| Separated/divorced | 33 (5.4) |
| Widowed | 9 (1.5) |
| Current occupation n (%)§ | |
| Employed | 289 (47.1) |
| Student | 235 (38.3) |
| Unemployed | 41 (6.7) |
| Retired | 36 (5.9) |
| Other | 9 (1.5) |
| BMI Kg/m2, M±SD¶ | 24.7 (5.3) |
| Smoking status n (%)§ | |
| Never smoker | 457 (74.4) |
| Ex-smoker | 106 (17.3) |
| Current smoker | 47 (7.7) |
| Setting | |
| Secondary care | 475 (77.4) |
| Primary care | 139 (22.6) |
| Age of asthma diagnosis (years) M±SD** | 16.2±14.8 |
| Number of prescribed inhalers n (%)†† | |
| 1 | 396 (64.5) |
| 2 | 193 (31.4) |
| ≥3 | 19 (3.1) |
| GINA assessment symptom control n (%)†† | |
| Well controlled | 296 (48.2) |
| Partly controlled | 188 (30.6) |
| Uncontrolled | 124 (20.2) |
| Number of physician-reported comorbidities median (P25–P75) | 1 (0–2) |
| CARAT-T median (P25–P75) | 21 (16–25) |
| CARAT-T classification | |
| Controlled n (%) | 156 (25.4) |
| Uncontrolled n (%) | 458 (74.6) |
| EQ-5D-3L median (P25–P75) | |
| Total | 0.91 (0.81–1.0) |
| VAS | 80.0 (70.0–90.0) |
*Eight missing values.
†Nine missing values.
‡Missing value.
§Four missing values.
¶Twenty-eight missing values.
**Twenty-two missing values.
††Six missing values.
BMI, body mass index; CARAT-T, Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test total score; EQ-5D-3L, European Quality of Life Five Dimension Questionnaire-three-level version; GINA, Global Initiative for Asthma; M, mean; P25, 25th percentile; P75, 75th percentile; VAS, visual analogue scale.