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. 2023 Jul 21;25:e45896. doi: 10.2196/45896

Table 2.

Summary of domain-specific research opportunities.

Domain Future research opportunities
Air quality
  • Investigate the added value to other asthma monitoring tools and the application or air quality monitoring in multiparameter asthma interventions

Airway inflammation markers
  • Not applicable

Lung function
  • Investigate the effects on asthma outcomes of home-monitoring interventions where patients perform additional lung function measurements when they experience symptoms or measure reversibility

Physical activity
  • Perform a systematic evaluation of the relation between physical activity and asthma control

  • Investigate how physical activity monitoring can be applied to benefit asthma outcomes

Sleep
  • Investigate what sleep parameters are most strongly related to asthma control and asthma manifestations

  • Investigate what factors influence the relation between sleep parameters and asthma control in children with asthma, such as age, sleep behavior, and chronic rhinitis

Audiovisual
  • Investigate if there are specific patient characteristics (eg, age, sex, and asthma severity) to identify children who benefit most from audiovisual monitoring

  • Investigate the added value of visual recordings compared to audio recordings alone

Other physiological measurements
  • Investigate the added value of other physiological parameters (such as heart rate, respiratory rate, pulse oximetry, and electromyography) in asthma monitoring

  • Investigate the added value of other physiological measurements in a multiparameter asthma monitoring strategy at home.

Questionnaires
  • Investigate if there are specific patient characteristics (eg, age, sex, and asthma severity) that can identify children with a good symptom perception who can be adequately monitored by questionnaires and children with a poor symptom perception who require additional monitoring

  • Investigate the added value of questionnaire monitoring in multiparameter asthma monitoring

Medication monitoring
  • Investigate the long-term effects of medication monitoring interventions on adherence and asthma outcomes

  • Investigate the best personalized strategies to provide feedback based on medication monitoring data to optimize adherence

Digital environment
  • Investigate which components of digital environments are most effective

  • Investigate how digital environments for pediatric asthma can be optimized to maximize effectiveness for health outcomes