Question

Conduct a literature search on the topic "patient compliance" (patient adherence). Write a one page summary of the factors that contribute to poor patient compliance and develop several strategies that you believe will improve medication compliance by patients. How would set out to study the benefits of a new educational intervention on improving medication taking for depression patients? What type of study design? Outcome measures?

Answer 1

factors contributing poor compliance:

Poor patient-caregiver communication

Inadequate information about drugs

Long term regimen

Fear of side effects

expensive

Inaccessible

Unable to convince the patient by the caregiver

Factors improving compliance

collaborative approach

communication with the patient

Scheduling appropriate follow ups

Assessing drug adherence

Addressing the problems in adherence and sorting out

Simplify the medications

Study design:

Randomised controlled trial

Outcome measures:

Rehospitalistion and prognosis of depressive patients between the patients with drug adherence and non drug adherence