Table 2.

Inhaler use assessment for five inhaler types at the first visit

	Evohaler (n=75)	Respimat (n=46)	Turbuhaler (n=45)	Ellipta (n=74)	Breezhaler/Handihaler (n=80)	p-value
Acceptable (no or 1 error)	28 (37.3)	22 (47.8)	28 (62.2)*	45 (60.8)*	35 (43.8)	0.026†
Mean score of checklist	2.89±1.54	3.46±1.38	3.71±1.16	3.59±1.13	3.45±1.05	0.014‡

Values are presented as number (%) or mean±standard deviation.

The checklist for every inhaler type consists of five steps.

^*There were significant differences with Evohaler (p<0.05). Total score of each checklist per patient was 5.

^†Fisher exact test was done for comparison of five types inhaler (p=0.026).

^‡Kruskal-Wallis equality-of-populations rank test was done for comparison of five inhaler’ types’ scores (p=0.014).