FF/UMEC/VI Inhaler: Qualitative Analysis and Subject Preference Survey

Qualitative concept elicitation telephone interviews will be conducted in subjects with COPD to explore treatment effectiveness, symptoms, quality of life, and features of treatment that are considered to be most important to them when making treatment choices.

Qualitative concept elicitation in-person focus groups will be conducted in subjects with COPD to explore treatment effectiveness, symptoms, quality of life, and features of treatment that are considered to be most important to them when making treatment choices.

Draft version of the DCE surveys will be tested with subjects in cognitive interviews to explore the saliency of the attribute choices and assess whether the attributes are understandable, meaningful and comprehensive.

The modified DCEs will be piloted with subjects with COPD in each country to refine the underlying design and ensure that information is collected in an efficient way to enable the statistical analysis to be as precise as possible.

An online DCE survey questionnaire will be given to the subjects to identify subject preferences, priorities and treatment goals.