[Asthma: Adapting the therapeutic follow-up according to the medical and psychosocial profiles].

Introduction: This work is based on the data of REALISE™, a survey conducted among 8000 European patients to identify the profiles of adult asthma patients and how these are linked with treatment adherence behaviors.

Methods: A cluster analysis was performed by combining data in three ways: control of asthma, attitude towards the disease, compliance with treatment. A multidisciplinary group analyzed the results for the 1024 French survey respondents.

Results: Four patient profiles were identified: "rather confident" (28% of patients), rather young patients with a low level of concern about their asthma. "Rather committed" (23%) patients considering themselves to be mostly healthy, reporting better therapeutic declared. "Rather questing" (26%), patients poorly controlled, seeking to manage their asthma themselves. "Rather concerned" profile (23%), a bit older, with poor clinical control, considering their asthma to be severe.

Conclusions: Cluster analysis provides a multidimensional approach to understand the therapeutic behavior of the different patient profiles better and so adjust communication by and education of healthcare professionals.