Enablers and determinants of the provision of written action plans to patients with asthma: a stratified survey of Canadian physicians.

Unlabelled: Despite national recommendations, most patients with asthma are not given a written action plan . The objectives were to ascertain physicians' endorsement of potential enablers to providing a written action plan, and the determinants and proportion, of physician-reported use of a written action plan. We surveyed 838 family physicians, paediatricians, and emergency physicians in Quebec.

Enablers of Physician Prescription of a Long-Term Asthma Controller in Patients with Persistent Asthma.

Objective. We aimed to identify key enablers of physician prescription of a long-term controller in patients with persistent asthma. Methods.

Patients' perspective of barriers and facilitators to taking long-term controller medication for asthma: a novel taxonomy.

Background: Although asthma morbidity can be prevented through long-term controller medication, most patients with persistent asthma do not take their daily inhaled corticosteroid. The objective of this study was to gather patients' insights into barriers and facilitators to taking long-term daily inhaled corticosteroids as basis for future knowledge translation interventions.

Methods: We conducted a collective qualitative case study.

Initial validation of the Brief Assessment of Service Satisfaction in Persons with an Intellectual Disability (BASSPID).

Individuals with an intellectual disability often require intensive services to promote their social participation to the fullest extent. As such, measuring satisfaction with these services appears essential to enhance the quality of life of individuals with an intellectual disability and to improve service delivery within agencies. Thus, the purpose of the study was to conduct an initial validation of the Brief Assessment of Service Satisfaction in Persons with an Intellectual Disability (BASSPID), a 15-item questionnaire designed to assess service satisfaction.

Facilitators and solutions for practicing optimal guided asthma self-management: the physician perspective.

Objective: To identify key solutions that facilitate the prescription of long-term asthma controller and provision of written self-management plans by physicians.

Methods: One hour individualized semistructured interviews were conducted with physicians. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed independently by two trained qualitative researchers.