Partial medication compliance, where patients do not take enough of their prescribed medicine to achieve adequate outcomes, is common. Research using electronic monitoring to assess compliance has shown that people take approximately 75% of doses as prescribed, irrespective of the condition being treated or its severity. Erratic compliance often leads to discontinuation of therapy, as treatment...

Background: Self-efficacy of medication use and pharmaceutical knowledge are important factors for medical treatment completion. Aim: This study aimed to determine the effect of self-administration of medication program on pharmaceutical knowledge and satisfaction of patients with cardiovascular diseases. Methods: This randomized cl...

“Breakthrough” of psychosis despite good compliance antipsychotics medication for a long time is major obstacle to the treatment schizophrenia, whether mechanism caused by dopamine hypersensitivity or insufficient dose antipsychotics. Researchers advocating “Dopamine Supersensitivity Psychosis” (DSP) emphasize avoid excessive inhibition 2 receptors from beginning treatment. On other hand, resea...

The goal of this study was to estimate the prevalence polypharmacy and medication compliance among patients with T2DM at a primary care clinic in Muscat, Oman, determine whether various sociodemographic clinical factors were associated assess relationships between polypharmacy, compliance, self-related health. It is cross-sectional conducted September November 2019 included all adult attending ...

BACKGROUND Over a third of the world's population is infected with the tuberculin bacteria. In 1993 WHO launched the DOTS-strategy to enhance treatment compliance. Despite Gambia's adaption in 1985 it falls below WHO target of 85% cure rate. The defaulter rate was 14% in 2001, which reached 16% in the urban areas of the Western Division in 2003. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to compare TB treat...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Since the initiation of the Children's Asthma Care (CAC) core measures in 2008, hospitals have struggled to achieve a high rate of compliance with the CAC-3 measure of the Home Management Plan of Care (HMPC). At inception of this project in 2009, the national average was 65% compliance, which has now increased to 80%. These rates are below the Hospital Corporation of Am...

Objectives: An increased understanding of the reasons for noncompliance and lack of persistence with prescribed medication is an important step to improve treatment effectiveness, and thus patient health. Explanations have been attempted from epidemiological, sociological and psychological perspectives. Economic models (utility maximization, time preferences, health capital, bilateral bargainin...

OBJECTIVE Psychosocial aspects have been investigated in transplant medicine mainly by the means of various structured questionnaires. To date only few interview data are available on patients thoughts about their self, the transplanted lung or the medication, and the relationship between these thoughts and compliance or gender. METHODS Twenty patients were interviewed after transplantation a...

Appropriate self-care practices, including nutrition and medication compliance, are essential to satisfactory control of diabetes mellitus (DM). This descriptive study assesses self-care practices, and their relationships to glycaemic control in adults with DM in Jamaica. A pre-tested structured interview and anthropometric measurements were carried out on 98 women and 35 men, randomly selected...

Hypertension is a condition where an increase in systolic or diastolic blood pressure ≥ 140/90 mmHg. Success of hypertension therapy influenced by several factors, one which compliance with taking medication. Adherence to take medication very important improve the effectiveness treatment and prevent complications. Poor adherence drug consumption most frequent cause failure antihypertensive ther...