To investigate the correlation between self-assessment by patients and an assessment by a health professional of the skills needed for self administration of adrenaline by auto-injectors. These skills include the identification of situations requiring the administration of adrenaline and the technical abilities to achieve it. Hypothesis: A self-assessment correlated with an external assessment would make it easier to adjust the frequency of therapeutic education sessions based on the patient's self-assessment alone.
Intramuscular Adrenaline is the standard treatment for severe to moderate anaphylaxis. Self-administration of Adrenaline by the patient using an auto-injector pen in case of anaphylaxis is a major axis of management of patients with severe food allergy, hymenoptera venom allergy or systemic mastocytosis. This self-administration skill requires prior therapeutic education of the patient. This education must be repeated over time and must include two components: the identification of anaphylactic situations requiring the self-administration of Adrenalin and the technical skills and abilities to carry out this self-injection. Numerous studies have investigated the technical skills for using Adrenaline auto-injector pens according to the device prescribed, the importance of therapeutic education, the optimal frequency of therapeutic education sessions for self-administration and the main barriers to the use of Adrenaline. To our knowledge, no study has investigated the correlation between patients' self-assessment of the skills required for self-administration of Adrenaline by self-injecting pen and an external assessment of these same skills by a health professional. A self-assessment correlated with an external assessment would make it easier to adjust the frequency of therapeutic education sessions based on patient self-assessment alone.
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OBSERVATIONAL
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Correlation between a patient self-assessment and a health care professional's assessment of the skills needed to self-administer epinephrine by self-injecting pen
A two-part, 20-point self-assessment scale: * A visual analog scale addressing skills in identifying situations requiring administration of self-injectable epinephrine, scored out of 10 points * A visual analogue scale for technical skills in administering epinephrine by self-injecting pen, scored out of 10 points A two-part health professional assessment scale scored out of 20 points: * A single response questionnaire asked to the patient including 5 standardized clinical situations, validated by an expert committee, requiring or not the administration of Adrenalin, scored out of 10 points * An evaluation of the technical skills of injecting adrenaline with a self-injecting pen with a demonstration pen, in 6 steps, scored out of 10 points
Time frame: One day
Correlation between patient self-assessment and healthcare professional assessment of ability to identify situations requiring administration of self-injectable epinephrine
A 10-point self-assessment scale in the form of a visual analogue scale on the ability to identify situations requiring the administration of self-injectable epinephrine and a hetero-assessment with a 10-point single-answer questionnaire including 5 standardized clinical situations, validated by an expert committee, requiring or not the administration of adrenaline
Time frame: One day
Correlation between a patient's self-assessment and a healthcare professional's assessment of technical skills in performing epinephrine administration by self-injecting pen
A 10-point self-assessment scale in the form of a visual analog scale of technical skills in performing epinephrine administration by self-injecting pen and a 10-point hetero-assessment of epinephrine injection skills by self-injecting pen with a 6-step demonstration pen.
Time frame: One day
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