[Anxiety in subjects with bronchial asthma]

Asthma, a frequent chronic respiratory disease, poses a public health problem due to its frequency, its impact on patients' lives and its significant direct and indirect costs. Despite all the published recommendations and the availability of increasingly effective therapies, many asthmatics remain poorly monitored, treated and controlled. This is due to several factors, including the association with comorbidities. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between anxiety, asthma and its control.

A descriptive cross-sectional study with an analytical aim spread over one year (July 2016-July 2017). Were included in the study all asthmatics whose age was higher than 16 years randomly recruited at the consultation of the pneumophthisiology service of the CHU of Tizi-Ouzou (Algeria).

According to the ACT criteria on 300 asthma patients, only 6.3% were controlled, 51.3% had partial control and 42.3% were uncontrolled. The factors negatively influencing asthma control were female gender (p=0.01) and anxiety (p= 0.0004). Factors associated with anxiety were female gender (p=0.001) and heart disease (p=0.00004).

Our study highlighted the relationship between asthma and anxiety, which has a negative impact on asthma control.