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| Título: | Therapy adherence of out patients in the pharmacy services of a hospital unit |
| Autores: | Rodrigues, Diana
Marante, Nídia
Silva, Pedro
Carvalho, Sara
Araújo, André
Ribeiro, Maximiano
Coutinho, Paula
Ventura, Sandra
Roque, Fátima |
| Palavras Chave: | Therapy adherence
Health status
Effectiveness |
| Data: | May-2016 |
| Editora: | BioMed Central |
| Resumo: | The low adherence to therapy of chronic patients undergoing long-term treatment has been identified as a major factor responsible for the lack of effectiveness of prescribed treatments.
In the present study, we have conducted interviews to patients over the age of 18 that acquired their medications in a hospital pharmacy of the north region of Portugal. Compliance with the treatment regimen and self-perception of health status were assessed by applying the Morisky Medication Adherence Scale© (MMA-8-Item) and the The Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire© (IPQ-B), respectively.
The association between gender and some types of disease was observed for Psoriatic Arthritis and for the incidence of breast cancer in women and lung cancer in males. Of the 11 patients, 3 reported to have undergo therapeutic changes from the beginning of treatment.
These three correspond to patients with Hepatitis B and Psoriatic Arthritis.
The results of therapy adherence show 90.9 % of adherence, in which 5 of the 11 respondents showed a high degree of adherence to therapy and only 1 revealed lower levels of adherence. According
to the MMA-8-Item (n = 11) respondents do not associate the nonadherence to oblivion of taking the medicines. However, the limiting factors of adherence most mentioned were adverse effects associated with the medication and depressive states linked with the negative impact that the disease has on society.
Although this is a pilot study, our results have shown to be promising.
Patients reported high adherence rates and it was verified a relationship between therapy adherence and the self-perception of health. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10314/3464 |
| ISSN: | 1472-6963 |
| Aparece nas Colecções: | Artigos em Acta de Conferência Internacional (ESS)
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