The impact of giving personal feedback to children about the perception of their asthma (a pilot study)

Asthmatic children with a bad perception will be included in this study. Those children will receive a home-spirometer and will be asked to measure their asthmatic complaints both subjectively (through a questionnaire including a VAS) and objectively (through performing a spirometry at home). Both outcomes will be combined and feedback will be given to these patients once a week, in total for six weeks. The impact of the given feedback on their perception will be evaluated by comparing the perception at inclusion and the perception after six weeks.

There is expected the perception of a patient will be improved after six weeks of home-monitoring and receiving feedback

A few times a week the participant will perform measurements at home with the NuvoAir Next spirometer and a questionnaire and weekly a feedback session will take place to evaluate these measurements. After six weeks, all the measurements of those weeks will be evaluated to conclude whether the perception is improved. Also, all these measurements will be used for evaluating the secondary outcome: the input parameters for a follow-up study.