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Level of Medication Adherence and Its Associated Factors among Patients Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy at a Tertiary Care Hospital in South India
Introduction: Anti-retro viral drugs are the corner stone of management of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Anti-retro viral drugs have been consistently proven to reduce mortality due to HIV. The aim of this study was to identify the level of drug adherence and related challenges for a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7322410/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32626671 http://dx.doi.org/10.34172/JCS.2020.014 |
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author | Sakthivel, Varadharaj Krishnasamy, Vembu Mehalingam, Vadivelan |
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description | Introduction: Anti-retro viral drugs are the corner stone of management of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Anti-retro viral drugs have been consistently proven to reduce mortality due to HIV. The aim of this study was to identify the level of drug adherence and related challenges for adherence. Methods: A cross- sectional study was conducted in the antiretroviral therapy (ART) clinic of a tertiary care teaching hospital. Patients who were above 18 years of age, on ART for at least six months and underwent counselling before starting ART were included in the study (n = 143). Demographic variables and clinical profile were noted and level of drug adherence and associated factors were assessed using Morisky Green Levine test and check list respectively. Data was analysed in SPSS version 22. Results: Most of the study subjects (89.5%) had high level of medication adherence and 10.5% had medium level adherence. Factors contributing to high adherence level were confidentiality and trust among health workers, concerned about their own health, understanding about the prescribed drugs, idea about disease progression, effectiveness and knowledge of anti-retro viral drugs. Conclusion: Drug adherence was found to be high among HIV- infected patients in this study and various reasons contributed for the high adherence among the study subjects. |
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spelling | pubmed-73224102020-07-02 Level of Medication Adherence and Its Associated Factors among Patients Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy at a Tertiary Care Hospital in South India Sakthivel, Varadharaj Krishnasamy, Vembu Mehalingam, Vadivelan J Caring Sci Original Article Introduction: Anti-retro viral drugs are the corner stone of management of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Anti-retro viral drugs have been consistently proven to reduce mortality due to HIV. The aim of this study was to identify the level of drug adherence and related challenges for adherence. Methods: A cross- sectional study was conducted in the antiretroviral therapy (ART) clinic of a tertiary care teaching hospital. Patients who were above 18 years of age, on ART for at least six months and underwent counselling before starting ART were included in the study (n = 143). Demographic variables and clinical profile were noted and level of drug adherence and associated factors were assessed using Morisky Green Levine test and check list respectively. Data was analysed in SPSS version 22. Results: Most of the study subjects (89.5%) had high level of medication adherence and 10.5% had medium level adherence. Factors contributing to high adherence level were confidentiality and trust among health workers, concerned about their own health, understanding about the prescribed drugs, idea about disease progression, effectiveness and knowledge of anti-retro viral drugs. Conclusion: Drug adherence was found to be high among HIV- infected patients in this study and various reasons contributed for the high adherence among the study subjects. Tabriz University of Medical Sciences 2020-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7322410/ /pubmed/32626671 http://dx.doi.org/10.34172/JCS.2020.014 Text en © 2020 The Author(s). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This work is published by Journal of Caring Sciences as an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Sakthivel, Varadharaj Krishnasamy, Vembu Mehalingam, Vadivelan Level of Medication Adherence and Its Associated Factors among Patients Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy at a Tertiary Care Hospital in South India |
title | Level of Medication Adherence and Its Associated Factors among Patients Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy at a Tertiary Care Hospital in South India |
title_full | Level of Medication Adherence and Its Associated Factors among Patients Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy at a Tertiary Care Hospital in South India |
title_fullStr | Level of Medication Adherence and Its Associated Factors among Patients Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy at a Tertiary Care Hospital in South India |
title_full_unstemmed | Level of Medication Adherence and Its Associated Factors among Patients Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy at a Tertiary Care Hospital in South India |
title_short | Level of Medication Adherence and Its Associated Factors among Patients Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy at a Tertiary Care Hospital in South India |
title_sort | level of medication adherence and its associated factors among patients receiving antiretroviral therapy at a tertiary care hospital in south india |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7322410/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32626671 http://dx.doi.org/10.34172/JCS.2020.014 |
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