The weak adherence to medication in chronic disease remains a serious problem, despite all effort made to reduce its extent. An inadequate adherence faces economic, clinical and humanistic consequences. It is nowadays recognized that the patient’s involvement in the decisions concerning the treatment of the disease is a key factor to improve their adherence behavior. This research aimed primarily to explore a set of psychosocial variables associated with the behavior of adherence to medication involving 164 chronic patients from the north, center and south of Portugal. The results enabled to identify a relation between general and specific beliefs regarding medication and the adherence and a relation between the satisfaction with the information about medicines and the beliefs about them. It was also identified that the patients most ignored facets of knowledge about medicines correspond to the main reasons for dissatisfaction with the information. The pharmacist appears as the patients’ favorite source to get information about medicines. These results reveal the need to identify each patient’s beliefs about medication and their satisfaction with the information about them, as a means to develop communicative skills favoring adherence
Date of Award | 2015 |
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Original language | Portuguese |
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Awarding Institution | - Universidade Católica Portuguesa
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Supervisor | Ana Margarida de Barros Trovisqueira Baptista da Silva (Supervisor) |
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- Adherence to medication
- Knowledge about medicines
- Satisfaction with information about medicines
- Chronic diseases
- Mestrado em Psicologia Clínica e da Saúde
Variáveis psicossociais associadas à adesão à terapêutica farmacológica em doentes crónicos: conhecimento, crenças e satisfação com a informação sobre medicamentos
Dias, N. M. O. C. (Student). 2015
Student thesis: Master's Thesis