Secondarily, the following will also be compared between the two study arms:~the subdomains of the AQLQ score,~lung function, overall asthma control and exacerbation rates,~general health status via the Euroqol 5-domain 5-level questionnaire (EQ-5D-5L),~adherence to the program and burden of the program for the medical team,~major categories of direct health resource consumption.~Finally, because education intervention success may depend on patient-specific characteristics, an ancillary study will compare the following baseline traits between the 50% best intervention responders in either arm:~the big five personality traits,~the hospital anxiety and depression,~coping mechanisms.
The onset of smartphone usage has provided new opportunities for managing patients outside the walls of healthcare facilities. The development of asthma-specific smartphone applications represents an excellent area for partnership between developers and medical teams for delivering therapeutic education at the required time and in a personalised way. Within this context, the overall goal of the AsthmaTrain study is to perform a first, small pilot study comparing a new French-language chat-bot guided asthma patient education programme (the 'Vik' application) with the classic, authority-approved patient education program at the University Hospitals of Montpellier, Montpellier, France.~The primary objective is to compare a population of adult patients with asthma and participating in a standard patient education programme with a similar population participating in Vik-guided education programme in terms of change in overall scores on the Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (AQLQ).