Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test (CARAT) can be used to assess individual patients over time

Table 4 – Longitudinal validity – comparison of the variation of CARAT10 with the variation of external measures of control

		Symptoms VAS			Physician assessment
	ΔACQ5	ΔAll symptoms	ΔBronchial/pulmonary symptoms	ΔNasal symptoms	ΔAsthma control	ΔRhinitis control
ΔCARAT10	−0.63	−0.65	−0.52	−0.53	0.45*	0.31#
ΔRhinitis subscore	−0.51	−0.52	−0.53	−0.56‡	0.44*	0.41*
ΔAsthma subscore	−0.55‡	−0.60	−0.49‡	−0.28#	0.31#‡	0.24ª

The correlations between the measures of similar domains are shown in bold.
All correlations were statistically significant with p < 0.001, except * p < 0.01, # p < 0.05 and ª p = 0.09. ‡ did not meet the a priori predictions for the correlation coefficients: 1) 0.6–0.8 with ACQ5 and with the symptoms VAS; 2) 0.4–0.6 with the physician’s assessment.

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