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Burden of illness, medication adherence, and unmet medical needs in Japanese patients with atopic dermatitis: A retrospective analysis of a cross‐sectional questionnaire survey

Atopic dermatitis (AD) negatively affects patients’ daily lives. Poor medication adherence is a major barrier to treatment success. However, factors causing patients’ poor adherence are unclear. This study aimed to identify factors associated with improvement of medication adherence in Japanese pati...

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Autores principales: Kamei, Kazumasa, Hirose, Tomohiro, Yoshii, Noritoshi, Tanaka, Akio
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9291885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34231235
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1346-8138.16054
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Hirose, Tomohiro
Yoshii, Noritoshi
Tanaka, Akio
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description Atopic dermatitis (AD) negatively affects patients’ daily lives. Poor medication adherence is a major barrier to treatment success. However, factors causing patients’ poor adherence are unclear. This study aimed to identify factors associated with improvement of medication adherence in Japanese patients with AD and to evaluate illness burden and unmet medical needs for AD. We retrospectively analyzed Web‐based questionnaire surveys conducted in 2018 in patients with AD aged 15 years and above who had been in‐ or outpatients within the past year from the survey. Quality of life using the EuroQol 5‐Dimension (EQ‐5D), and work productivity and activity impairment using Work Productivity and Activity Impairment Questionnaire (WPAI) were compared between patients and matched controls who had not visited a hospital for any disease within the past year. Subpopulation analysis was performed to explore factors affecting medication adherence. Unmet medical needs in AD treatment were identified by the percentage of patients who rated issues on the questionnaire as important but who were unsatisfied with them. In this study, we identified 1739 patients with AD. The scores of EQ‐5D and WPAI showed that patients had statistically lower quality of life and higher impairment of work and activities than controls. High medication adherence scores were seen in patients with high health literacy levels and those who were well satisfied with communication with health‐care providers, information received from them, or explanations of AD. Current unmet medical needs for AD were medical treatment costs, ease of hospital visits and explanations about disease prognosis. Patients tended to put a higher priority on communication with physicians than on that with nurses and pharmacists. In conclusion, we have identified patients’ higher health literacy levels and satisfaction with the communication with their health‐care provider as potential factors to improve medication adherence.
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spelling pubmed-92918852022-07-20 Burden of illness, medication adherence, and unmet medical needs in Japanese patients with atopic dermatitis: A retrospective analysis of a cross‐sectional questionnaire survey Kamei, Kazumasa Hirose, Tomohiro Yoshii, Noritoshi Tanaka, Akio J Dermatol Original Articles Atopic dermatitis (AD) negatively affects patients’ daily lives. Poor medication adherence is a major barrier to treatment success. However, factors causing patients’ poor adherence are unclear. This study aimed to identify factors associated with improvement of medication adherence in Japanese patients with AD and to evaluate illness burden and unmet medical needs for AD. We retrospectively analyzed Web‐based questionnaire surveys conducted in 2018 in patients with AD aged 15 years and above who had been in‐ or outpatients within the past year from the survey. Quality of life using the EuroQol 5‐Dimension (EQ‐5D), and work productivity and activity impairment using Work Productivity and Activity Impairment Questionnaire (WPAI) were compared between patients and matched controls who had not visited a hospital for any disease within the past year. Subpopulation analysis was performed to explore factors affecting medication adherence. Unmet medical needs in AD treatment were identified by the percentage of patients who rated issues on the questionnaire as important but who were unsatisfied with them. In this study, we identified 1739 patients with AD. The scores of EQ‐5D and WPAI showed that patients had statistically lower quality of life and higher impairment of work and activities than controls. High medication adherence scores were seen in patients with high health literacy levels and those who were well satisfied with communication with health‐care providers, information received from them, or explanations of AD. Current unmet medical needs for AD were medical treatment costs, ease of hospital visits and explanations about disease prognosis. Patients tended to put a higher priority on communication with physicians than on that with nurses and pharmacists. In conclusion, we have identified patients’ higher health literacy levels and satisfaction with the communication with their health‐care provider as potential factors to improve medication adherence. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-07-06 2021-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9291885/ /pubmed/34231235 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1346-8138.16054 Text en © 2021 Pfizer Japan Inc. The Journal of Dermatology published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Japanese Dermatological Association https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Kamei, Kazumasa
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Yoshii, Noritoshi
Tanaka, Akio
Burden of illness, medication adherence, and unmet medical needs in Japanese patients with atopic dermatitis: A retrospective analysis of a cross‐sectional questionnaire survey
title Burden of illness, medication adherence, and unmet medical needs in Japanese patients with atopic dermatitis: A retrospective analysis of a cross‐sectional questionnaire survey
title_full Burden of illness, medication adherence, and unmet medical needs in Japanese patients with atopic dermatitis: A retrospective analysis of a cross‐sectional questionnaire survey
title_fullStr Burden of illness, medication adherence, and unmet medical needs in Japanese patients with atopic dermatitis: A retrospective analysis of a cross‐sectional questionnaire survey
title_full_unstemmed Burden of illness, medication adherence, and unmet medical needs in Japanese patients with atopic dermatitis: A retrospective analysis of a cross‐sectional questionnaire survey
title_short Burden of illness, medication adherence, and unmet medical needs in Japanese patients with atopic dermatitis: A retrospective analysis of a cross‐sectional questionnaire survey
title_sort burden of illness, medication adherence, and unmet medical needs in japanese patients with atopic dermatitis: a retrospective analysis of a cross‐sectional questionnaire survey
topic Original Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9291885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34231235
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1346-8138.16054
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