Beliefs About Medicines and its Relationship With Medication Adherence in Patients With Chronic Diseases
Background and Objectives: Patients’ beliefs about medicines can affect their adherence to the medicines. The aim of this study was to determine beliefs about medicines and medication adherence and its associated factors in patients with chronic diseases. Methods: In this cross-sectional descriptive...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Majallah-i dānishgāh-í ulūm-i pizishkī-i Qum 2021-09, Vol.15 (6), p.444-453 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Background and Objectives: Patients’ beliefs about medicines can affect their adherence to the medicines. The aim of this study was to determine beliefs about medicines and medication adherence and its associated factors in patients with chronic diseases. Methods: In this cross-sectional descriptive study, 268 patients with chronic diseases in 2019-2020 were included by convenience sampling method. The beliefs about medicines questionnaire and the Medication Adherence Scale were used for data collection. Data were analyzed in SPSS version 20 using One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), independent t-test and Pearson correlation coefficient at the significance level of α = 0.05. Results: The Mean±SD score of beliefs about medicines in terms of harms of medicines was 2.53±0.71, in benefits of medicines was 4.27±0.49 and overdose of the medicines was 3.23±0.79.There was a relationship between all three dimensions of beliefs about medicines with medication adherence (P |
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ISSN: | 1735-7799 2008-1375 |
DOI: | 10.32598/qums.15.6.2414.1 |