Therapy compliance, patient knowledge of medicines and self-medication as associated factors in negative clinical outcomes in pharmacotherapy [Cumplimiento, conocimiento y automedicación como factores asociados a los resultados clínicos negativos de la farmacoterapia]

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2005

Authors

Baena, MI (Author) Other; Fajardo, P (Author) Other; Martinez Olmos, J (Author) Other; Martinez Martinez, F (Author) Other; Moreno, P (Author) Other; Calleja, MA (Author) Other; Luque, FM (Author) Other; Sierra, F (Author) Other; Parras, M (Author) Other; Romero, JM (Author) Other; Vargas, J (Author) Other; Lopez, E (Author) Other; Fernandez Llimos, F (Author) Other; Faus, MJ (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Ars Pharmaceutica

Vol. 46

Pages: 365-381

ISSN: 0004-2927

Publisher: Editorial Universidad de Granada

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Authenticus ID: P-00F-RXD

Abstract (EN): The patient plays a fundamental role in the attainment of good results in pharmacotherapy. Non- Noncompliance, compliance, self-medication, or insufficient knowledge of the therapy being employed may provide a source for the causes of these negative clinical outcomes, otherwise known as medicine related problems (MRP). he Dader method was used in the evaluation, identification and classification of MRP. The association of variables was established through the statistical Chi square test. Patient knowledge of the medicine, degree of compliance to therapy and self-medication were studied as causes of the negative outcomes encountered. 2556 patients were interviewed throughout the year that the study took place, giving a total of 2261 of valid cases. 33% presented an MRP as the cause of his/her visit to the hospital emergency ward. Knowledge of the medicine, compliance and self-medication were only studied in the population that presented an MRP and in this work it is demonstrated that these are aspects that are associated with different dimensions of MRP. It is not possible to establish an association between the existence or not of negative clinical outcomes in patients with the factors of knowledge of medication, compliance and self-medication. This is due to the fact that these variables are not attributable to the patient himself, but rather are associated with the characteristics of each medicine.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific