Validation of a questionnaire (CARAT10) to assess rhinitis and asthma in patients with asthma

Abstract

CARAT10 has high internal consistency and good concurrent validity, making it useful to compare groups in clinical studies.

Evaluation of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Control in a Portuguese Community Pharmacy Setting

“…[18][19][20] The CARAT has been used in clinical practice but has not been studied in a community pharmacy setting. There are few studies that analyze the role of pharmacists for detecting level of ARA control.…”

“…The questionnaire is further divided into 2 sections: the first section relates to allergic rhinitis (CARAT-r), with a score range of 0 to 12 and a value higher than 8 identifying controlled AR; the second section relates to asthma (CARAT-a), with a score range of 0 to 18 and a value of 16 or higher identifying controlled asthma. 19,25 The VAS measures overall symptom severity, nasal symptoms, and bronchial symptoms, using a scale of 1 to 10, where a score of 1 means no symptoms or untroublesome symptoms, and a score of 10 indicates the worst possible or extremely troublesome symptoms. Patients who responded with answers from 1 to 6 were considered to have "controlled" symptoms, and those who answered within the range of 6 to 10 were classified as "not controlled."…”

“…The level of asthma and allergic rhinitis control was assessed by the validated questionnaire CARAT and by a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). 19 Asthma control was also assessed by the ACT. 24 Additional collected data included age, gender, smoking habits, and family history of allergic disease.…”

Health-Related Quality of Life and Rhinitis Control Measures in Allergic Rhinitis

“…The range of possible scores for CARAT10 is 0-30, 0 being the complete absence of control. This tool has been found to have good test-retest reliability, responsiveness and longitudinal validity, making it useful to compare groups in clinical studies and also in clinical practice [58,59].…”

Portugal at the cross road of international chronic respiratory programmes

“…Moreover, conjunctival symptoms and asthma will be monitored by the system. It will be combined with CARAT (Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test) 22,23 in order to better phenotype the patients, and an e-learning tool.…”