Medication Adherence After Cabg and Its Related to Medication Belief
L Rouhi Balasi 1, E Paryad2.1, Sh Booraki1, E Kazemnezhad Leili3, A M Sadeghi Meibodi4, N Nasiri Sheikhani41Faculty Member of Guilan University of Medical Sciences
2Faculty Member of Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Social Determinants of Health Research Center (SDHRC)
3Assistant Professor, Faculty Member of Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Social Determinants of Health Research Center (SDHRC)
4Assistant Professor, Faculty Member of Guilan University of Medical Sciences
Abstract: patients think their illness cured after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) completely but it is noticeable this therapeutic method can decrease the signs and symptoms of disease but can't cure it. By the way non medication adherent patients are high risk group for health delivery systems, and this situation may lead to increase admitting in hospitals and even lead to death.it seems the belief toward medication can affect on medication adherence. The samples of this of this cross sectional study were 217 patients six months after CABG surgery who selected by systematic randomized sampling. They participated in study by answering to a questionnaire that consisted of three sections about sociodemographic data, medication belief and adherence. Data gathering was done by phone calling. Data analysis was done by SPSS software version 16, by the use of descriptive and inferential statistics such as Chi square and Mann Whitney tests as appropriate Results showed the majority of samples had higher beliefs toward medication in specific necessity (62.7%), specific concerns (61.8%), general harm (56.2%) and general overuse (56.7%). In addition medication belief in majority of samples (56.2%) was desire and medication adherence was better than, and 81.1% of samples medication adherence was desire but relationship between medication beliefs and adherence was not significant. The drug belief was undesired in some of patients who had desire medication adherence. This point may indicate on other influenced factors on medication adherence and we offer to investigate in future studies.
Keywords: Medication adherence; Patient belief; Adherence; Coronary artery bypass Back to TOC