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How do patients with asthma and COPD behave during fasting?
Ö. Aydinb,
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, G.E. Çelikb, Z.P. Önena, İ. Yilmazb, S.K. Özdemirb, Ö. Yildiza, D. Munganb, Y.S. Demirelb
a Ankara University School of Medicine, Department of Chest Diseases, Ankara, Turkey
b Ankara University School of Medicine, Department of Chest Diseases, Division of Immunology and Allergy, Ankara, Turkey
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such as difficulties with inhaler devices&#44; adverse effects&#44; and cost of the treatment&#44; are the main causes for incompliance to inhaled medications&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> Incompliance with inhaled medications may also be due to personal and social factors&#46; Among these factors&#44; the effect of religious beliefs and behaviours has been less studied so far in patients with obstructive pulmonary diseases&#46;</p><p id="par0010" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Muslims fast at a certain time of a year&#44; called Ramadan&#46; During this time&#44; healthy Muslims are expected to eat and drink nothing from sahur &#40;before sunrise&#41; to iftar &#40;sunset&#41; time&#46; This restriction also includes medications given via oral and parenteral route&#46; However&#44; the drugs used via inhalation route are allowed&#46;</p><p id="par0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Although the relation between religion and health and particularly effect of fasting on chronic diseases has been an interesting issue for physicians nearly for 25 years&#44; this issue was only studied in a very limited number of patients with chronic airway diseases in which regular medication intake has been very important in order to gain symptom control&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> In our previous study&#44; we demonstrated that most Muslim asthmatics did not consider asthma to be a drawback to fasting&#44; and they continued fasting by rearranging their medication times on iftar and sahur&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> Although some overlaps might occur&#44; asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases &#40;COPD&#41; differ in many aspects&#44; patient and disease characteristics being one of them&#46; This discrepancy might cause different disease medication use behaviours&#46; Thus&#44; it could be of interest to study both the infuence of fasting on drug use behaviours of patients with COPD and compare the behaviours of patients with asthma and COPD&#46; So&#44; in this study&#44; we aimed to investigate the effect of fasting on drug use behaviour in patients with asthma and COPD and to see whether the patients from both diseases differ in terms of drug use during fasting&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0010" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Methods</span><span id="sec0015" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Patient selection and the study design</span><p id="par0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The study was conducted in Allergy and Pulmonology clinics of a university hospital between 1 June 2009 and 1 June 2010&#46; A total of 150 adult patients with asthma and 150 adult patients with COPD were consecutively enrolled into this cross-sectional study&#46; Asthma diagnosis was based on a history of recurrent symptoms of wheezing&#44; shortness of breath&#44; cough&#44; and demonstration of objective signs of reversible airway obstruction by means of at least<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#62;<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>12&#37; 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If the answer was &#8220;yes&#8221;&#44; they were kindly asked to reply to further questions related to use of inhaled medications during that particular time&#46; This questionnaire was developed by the authors on the basis of a questionnaire used in a previous study of the investigators&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> Participants were asked to give the answer which described the best of their attitude towards drug use&#46;</p><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The study was approved by the local ethics committee of our university&#46; All patients gave written informed consent to be included in the study&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0020" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Statistics</span><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The statistical analyses were performed by a computer software package &#40;SPSS version 11&#46;0&#44; 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the patients with asthma and COPD do not feel their diseases to be an inhibitory factor for fasting during Ramadan&#46; However&#44; fasting seems to be an important determining factor in medication compliance by modifying the drug use behaviours in each group in a different way&#46;</p><p id="par0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The month of Ramadan is the nineth month of the lunar calender&#46; Fasting includes neither eating nor drinking during the day&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0030"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6&#44;7</span></a> The patients with chronic illness are allowed not to fast during Ramadan because of ongoing disease conditions&#46; However&#44; despite this fact&#44; some patients fast if they feel that they can do&#46; Suggesting this&#44; in our group&#44; considering the high rate of fasting patients during Ramadan&#44; having COPD and asthma diagnosis did not inhibit the patients fasting attitude&#46;</p><p id="par0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The oral medications&#44; injections&#44; ear and nose drops and suppositories are not allowed for those fasting&#46; Use of eye drops and inhalers are accepted as a process that does not nullify the fast&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0040"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">8</span></a> Despite this information&#44; a considerable proportion of patients with chronic illness change their medication regimens during fasting without asking their physician&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0035"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a> In a questionnaire-based study on 80 Muslim patients&#44; compliance to eye drop medication during fasting was assessed and the majority of the patients thought that eye drops nullify the fast&#46; This resulted in reduced patient compliance&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0045"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span></a> In another survey&#44; only 42&#37; of the patients were found to adhere to their usual treatment&#44; while the remaining patients either stopped or changed their drug intake pattern while fasting during Ramadan&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0050"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">10&#44;11</span></a> In our study group&#44; each group exhibited a different pattern for drug use during this particular time&#46; The majority of the patients with asthma prefered not to stop their regular maintenance drugs&#44; instead they used them in a different way like using in sahur and iftar times&#46; In contrast&#44; the majority of the COPD patients quitted using these medications during Ramadan&#46;</p><p id="par0075" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Adjustment of the drug doses seems to be a way of using medications for fasting patients&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12&#44;13</span></a> &#8220;Sahur&#8221; is a time just before the sunrise when people start to fast whereas &#8220;iftar&#8221; &#40;sun down&#41; is the time when they are allowed to eat and drink until the next &#8220;sahur&#8221; time&#46; Therefore&#44; the most common adjustments are taking a single daily dose and two in allowed eating times&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> In accordance with previous trials&#44; our results suggested a change in drug use behaviours of the patients with asthma&#44; although inhaled medications are certainly allowed during fasting&#46; Previous studies showed that asthma patients wanted to be involved in the management of treatment actively by adjusting their controller maintanence medications depending on changes in their symptoms&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0070"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">14</span></a> Fasting seems to be another factor in which asthma patients are willing to be involved actively in the management of treatment as the majority of these patients adjusted to use their controller inhaled medications in &#8220;sahur&#8221; and &#8220;iftar&#8221; times during the month of Ramadan&#46; The patients might feel more confident when they use the drugs in iftar and sahur times despite the knowledge that these drugs are allowed during fasting&#46; This approach seems to be reasonable when compared to the hazardous alternative of quitting all the drugs&#46; However&#44; it is of interest whether the efficacy of the drugs differs when they are used in this way&#46; In the traditional approach&#44; inhaled steroids other than ciclesonid and mometasone are recommended twice daily with 12<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>h apart&#46; The interval between the &#8220;iftar&#8221; and &#8220;sahur&#8221; differs according to the season of Ramadan month corresponded&#46; It is longer than 12<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>h during summer months whereas a shorter period for fasting is available during winter months&#46; Based on data about pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of inhaled steroids&#44; this type of recommendations is not expected to have a change in efficacy of inhaled steroids in asthma&#46; Other maintenance treatment options of anti-leukotriens or theophyllines are available in the form of once daily use which allows them to be used confidently in fasting&#46; A recent study recommended to use a long acting formulation of teophylline taken once daily in order to reduce side-effects in asthmatic patients during Ramadan&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> Taken together&#44; all inhaled asthma medications used in iftar and sahur times are not expected to decrease the efficacy of the drugs and this way seems to be acceptable for patients who do not want to use their drugs during fasting hours&#46;</p><p id="par0080" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Although the reason why the majority of COPD patients quit their inhaled medications during Ramadan cannot be extracted from this data&#44; it is certain that the patients with asthma and COPD should be particularly informed and convinced that inhaler drugs are already allowed to use during fasting&#46; But despite this fact&#44; it seems that the patients feel more comfortable while using their drugs in this way&#46; We believe that the use of controller treatment in &#8220;iftar&#8221; and &#8220;sahur&#8221; times of the Ramadan month allow subjects to use their medications without any interruption of the treatment&#46; Actually&#44; considering the fact that quitting the medications during fasting can cause much more harmful effects on disease activity&#44; this advice seems to be a reasonable approach for better disease control&#46; However&#44; evaluation of the effect of this approach on disease activity such as disease control can provide a better rationale for recommendation of this approach to the patients&#46;</p><p id="par0085" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The behavioural difference between asthma and COPD patients emphasizes the necessity of a special approach to COPD patients in terms of fasting as COPD patients might be more vulnarable to exacerbations because of quitting their medications&#46;</p><p id="par0090" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">This study provides other important data&#46; Underlying disease activity did not seem to affect the fasting behaviours of the patients with asthma or COPD&#46; Although we do not have the data referring to how their asthma&#47;COPD progressed during Ramadan month&#44; this item is important as it indicates that subjects with asthma or COPD are willing to fast regardless of activity of the illness&#46; Actually&#44; the patients with COPD were more willingly to fast during Ramadan compared to asthmatics&#46; Moreover&#44; they had a tendency to have more strict individual rules related to drug use while fasting despite more severe underlying conditions&#46; They preferred not to use not only the drugs recommended on a regular basis but also rescue medications&#46; This behaviour was not so evident in patients with asthma&#46; Discrepancy in demographic features of the groups might&#44; at least&#44; partly explain this&#46; The patients in COPD were mostly male cases with advanced age&#46; In general&#44; older people are more prone to behave traditionally&#46; However&#44; it would be interesting to see the disease activity during Ramadan&#59; this was beyond the aim of this study but requires further evaluation&#46;</p><p id="par0095" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In conclusion&#44; it is recommended for the physicians to take and document a spiritual history in the medical record of the patients&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0075"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">15</span></a> The physicians can use this information for helping the patients to cope with their disease&#46; When fasting is taken into consideration as a religious issue&#44; learning the attitudes of the patients about fasting could also be useful for physicians while treating chronic respiratory illnesses&#46; The patients should be informed about the effects of fasting on their disease and the allowed drugs during fasting&#46; The results of our study reinforce the importance of remembering a patient&#39;s religious beliefs as a part of medical care&#46; We think that physicians should inform their patients how to fast without endangering their health&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0045" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Ethical disclosures</span><span id="sec0050" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Protection of human subjects and animals in research</span><p id="par0100" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Protection of human and animal subjects&#46; The authors declare that no experiments were performed on humans or animals for this investigation&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0055" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Patients&#8217; data protection</span><p id="par0105" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Confidentiality of Data&#46; The authors declare that they have followed the protocols of their work centre on the publication of patient data and that all the patients included in the study have received sufficient information and have given their informed consent in writing to participate in that study&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0060" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Right to privacy and informed consent</span><p id="par0115" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Right to privacy and informed consent&#46; The authors have obtained the informed consent of the patients and&#47;or subjects mentioned in the article&#46; The author for correspondence is in possession of this document&#46;</p></span></span><span id="sec0065" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Conflict of interest</span><p id="par0120" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">None of the authors have a conflict of interest and any kind of financial or editorial support&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0070" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Contributions</span><p id="par0125" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors made the following contributions to the study&#58;<ul class="elsevierStyleList" id="lis0005"><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0005"><p id="par0130" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">&#214;m&#252;r Aydin&#58; Study design&#44; inclusion of asthma patients&#44; data entrance&#44; writing manuscript&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0010"><p id="par0135" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">G&#252;lfem &#199;elik&#58; Study design&#44; inclusion of asthma patients&#44; statistical analysis&#44; writing manuscript&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0015"><p id="par0140" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Zeynep P&#305;nar &#214;nen&#58; Study design&#44; inclusion of COPD patients&#44; significant contribution to written manuscript&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0020"><p id="par0145" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">&#304;nsu Yilmaz&#58; Study design&#44; inclusion of asthma patients&#44; significant contribution to written manuscript&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0025"><p id="par0150" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Se&#231;il Kepil &#214;zdemir&#58; Study design&#44; inclusion of asthma patients&#44; significant contribution to written manuscript&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0030"><p id="par0155" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">&#214;znur Yildiz&#58; Study design&#44; inclusion of COPD patients&#44; significant contribution to written manuscript&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0035"><p id="par0160" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Dil&#351;ad Mungan&#58; Study design&#44; inclusion of asthma patients&#44; significant contribution to written manuscript&#46;</p></li><li class="elsevierStyleListItem" id="lsti0040"><p id="par0165" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Yavuz Selim Demirel&#58; Study design&#44; inclusion of asthma patients&#44; significant contribution to written manuscript&#46;</p></li></ul></p></span></span>"
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¿Es usted profesional sanitario apto para prescribir o dispensar medicamentos?

Are you a health professional able to prescribe or dispense drugs?

Você é um profissional de saúde habilitado a prescrever ou dispensar medicamentos