| Core category 1 |
1.1 | “It would be handy having an app so that you can monitor (asthma) yourself … to show your consultant and respiratory nurse exactly how your asthma has been … because often when they ask you can't remember.” [Patient #7, London] |
1.2 | “It's a very powerful tool to be able to show (patients) the data and say this is what is happening … rather than just saying you've got to keep taking your medication … you are empowering them with their treatment.” [HCP #3] |
1.3 | “A little bit of a prompt to say that at these levels maybe you should be seeking medical attention, this would be helpful because then they may attend the accident and emergency department a little bit sooner.” [HCP #2] |
1.4 | “Things sometimes get worse and I don't necessarily notice them and, therefore, I let them get worse. It would be nice if I could monitor it and see trends in different things and address them.” [Patient #4, London] |
1.5 | “I have had that moment, where you think at what point do I call an ambulance … I would like to be able to hit a button and it says this is what you should be doing.” [Patient #3, London] |
1.6 | “If you could have your asthma check-up and plug in your asthma action plan values into something … that's a much better way of helping people stay in control than a piece of paper, that when they come back from the doctors they put down and don't touch again until the next asthma check.” [Patient #3, Manchester] |
1.7 | “I really dislike going to my asthma check-up when I am pretty sure it is fairly well controlled anyway … I go and they tell me what I already know … it would be nice if a device could feed back to the nurse and they could let me know when I should get a check-up.” [Patient #2, London] |
| Core category 2 |
2.1 | “My peak flow tends to go down and then I get worse … even if I don't feel bad, my peak flow will be lower than it should be.” [Patient #7, London] |
2.2 | “On the written asthma action plans, it says if my peak flow drops below ‘X’ then I should do this with my medication … so it is useful for that.” [Patient #3, London] |
2.3 | “If it's going to be a high pollen count, I will arrange to go out in the evening or very early in the morning and avoid that part of the day … air quality is something that's a bit more difficult to avoid, but it's useful to know and may influence whether I go for a run today or whether I wait until tomorrow.” [Patient #4, Manchester] |
2.4 | “The amount of times I rush through it [taking my inhaler] … I don't feel like I am getting the benefit from it.” [Patient #4, London] |
2.5 | “Patients are on step four or five treatment but can't take an inhaler correctly … it is frightening that they are being referred to us for more invasive treatments.” [HCP #1] |
| Core category 3 |
3.1 | “Not all of the asthmatic patients have the same symptoms … I think you need to individualise the symptoms and what is measured to every patient separately.” [HCP #5] |
3.2 | “I don't want to measure all those things … if it is one or maybe two things I might, or if you could personalise it to what is relevant to you, but I'm not going to measure all of those things.” [Patient #2, London] |
3.3 | “If it is automatically on your inhaler and it measures and gives you feedback, perfect … if I have to get a separate device out to measure it, then I would probably use it less.” [Patient #7, Leiden] |
3.4 | “I just don't like subjective questions. I don't remember how bad ‘bad’ was last time I selected bad.” [Patient #2, London] |
3.5 | “If something is wearable and discreet, I would definitely go for something like that. If it is bulky and very visible, then maybe not.” [Patient #4, London] |