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Medication adherence to oral iron therapy in patients with iron deficiency anemia
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed at investigating the factors affecting medication adherence in patients who use oral iron therapy due to iron deficiency anemia. METHODS: A total of 96 female patients in fertile age with mean age of 30±10.1 years (range 18-53) who were admitted to Family Medicine Clinic...
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Professional Medical Publications
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4928407/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27375698 http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.323.9799 |
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author | Gereklioglu, Cigdem Asma, Suheyl Korur, Asli Erdogan, Ferit Kut, Altug |
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description | OBJECTIVE: This study aimed at investigating the factors affecting medication adherence in patients who use oral iron therapy due to iron deficiency anemia. METHODS: A total of 96 female patients in fertile age with mean age of 30±10.1 years (range 18-53) who were admitted to Family Medicine Clinic between 01 January and 31 March 2015 and who had received iron therapy within the recent three years were enrolled in the study. Data were collected through a questionnaire form. RESULTS: Of the patients, 39 (40,6%) were detected not to use the medication regularly or during the recommended period. A statistically significant relationship was found between non-adherence to therapy and gastrointestinal side effects and weight gain (p<0.05). CONCLUSION: Medication adherence is deficient in patients with iron deficiency anemia. The most important reason for this seems gastrointestinal side effects, in addition to weight gain under treatment. |
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spelling | pubmed-49284072016-07-01 Medication adherence to oral iron therapy in patients with iron deficiency anemia Gereklioglu, Cigdem Asma, Suheyl Korur, Asli Erdogan, Ferit Kut, Altug Pak J Med Sci Original Article OBJECTIVE: This study aimed at investigating the factors affecting medication adherence in patients who use oral iron therapy due to iron deficiency anemia. METHODS: A total of 96 female patients in fertile age with mean age of 30±10.1 years (range 18-53) who were admitted to Family Medicine Clinic between 01 January and 31 March 2015 and who had received iron therapy within the recent three years were enrolled in the study. Data were collected through a questionnaire form. RESULTS: Of the patients, 39 (40,6%) were detected not to use the medication regularly or during the recommended period. A statistically significant relationship was found between non-adherence to therapy and gastrointestinal side effects and weight gain (p<0.05). CONCLUSION: Medication adherence is deficient in patients with iron deficiency anemia. The most important reason for this seems gastrointestinal side effects, in addition to weight gain under treatment. Professional Medical Publications 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4928407/ /pubmed/27375698 http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.323.9799 Text en Copyright: © Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Gereklioglu, Cigdem Asma, Suheyl Korur, Asli Erdogan, Ferit Kut, Altug Medication adherence to oral iron therapy in patients with iron deficiency anemia |
title | Medication adherence to oral iron therapy in patients with iron deficiency anemia |
title_full | Medication adherence to oral iron therapy in patients with iron deficiency anemia |
title_fullStr | Medication adherence to oral iron therapy in patients with iron deficiency anemia |
title_full_unstemmed | Medication adherence to oral iron therapy in patients with iron deficiency anemia |
title_short | Medication adherence to oral iron therapy in patients with iron deficiency anemia |
title_sort | medication adherence to oral iron therapy in patients with iron deficiency anemia |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4928407/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27375698 http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.323.9799 |
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