TY - JOUR
T1 - Medication Adherence and Patients’ Characteristics in Chronic Diseases
T2 - A National Multi-Center Study
AU - Al-Noumani, Huda
AU - Al-Harrasi, Maryam
AU - Jose, Jimmy
AU - Al-Naamani, Zakariya
AU - Panchatcharam, Sathiya M.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was funded by The Research Council (TRC). Grant number (RC/RGCON/AHCC/18/01).
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/3
Y1 - 2022/3
N2 - Chronic diseases constitute a significant threat to health. Worldwide, medication adherence in chronic diseases remains unsatisfactory. Understanding factors affecting adherence is essential. This study examined medication adherence by characteristics of patients with chronic diseases. This cross-sectional study included 800 patients. The Adherence to Chronic Diseases Scale was used to measure adherence. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression was used to examine factors influencing medication adherence. Low adherence was found in 19.5% of the patients, 45% had medium adherence, and 35.5% had high adherence. Logistic regression showed that retired (OR 0.496, 95% CI [0.33–0.75]), having COPD (OR 0.460, 95% CI [0.32–0.67]) and duration of disease ≤5 years (OR 1.554, 95% CI [1.11–2.17]) remain independent predictors for high adherence. Mixed findings regarding the relationship between medication adherence and patients’ characteristics were noticed. Patients’ characteristics should be examined with the individual population when examining and attempting to improve medication adherence in clinical practice.
AB - Chronic diseases constitute a significant threat to health. Worldwide, medication adherence in chronic diseases remains unsatisfactory. Understanding factors affecting adherence is essential. This study examined medication adherence by characteristics of patients with chronic diseases. This cross-sectional study included 800 patients. The Adherence to Chronic Diseases Scale was used to measure adherence. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression was used to examine factors influencing medication adherence. Low adherence was found in 19.5% of the patients, 45% had medium adherence, and 35.5% had high adherence. Logistic regression showed that retired (OR 0.496, 95% CI [0.33–0.75]), having COPD (OR 0.460, 95% CI [0.32–0.67]) and duration of disease ≤5 years (OR 1.554, 95% CI [1.11–2.17]) remain independent predictors for high adherence. Mixed findings regarding the relationship between medication adherence and patients’ characteristics were noticed. Patients’ characteristics should be examined with the individual population when examining and attempting to improve medication adherence in clinical practice.
KW - chronic disease
KW - medication adherence
KW - Oman
KW - patient characteristics
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U2 - 10.1177/10547738211033754
DO - 10.1177/10547738211033754
M3 - Article
C2 - 34287084
AN - SCOPUS:85111005501
SN - 1054-7738
VL - 31
SP - 426
EP - 434
JO - Clinical Nursing Research
JF - Clinical Nursing Research
IS - 3
ER -