Medication Adherence of Elderly with Hypertension and/or Diabetes-mellitus and its' Influencing Factors

고혈압과 당뇨병 노인의 복약순응도와 이에 영향을 미치는 요인

  • Kim, Seong-Ok (London School of Economics and Political Science)
  • 김성옥 (런던정치경제대학교 아시아연구소)
  • Received : 2011.03.07
  • Accepted : 2011.04.04
  • Published : 2011.06.30

Abstract

Medication adherence is an important public health issue. This study is conducted to explore non-adherence of elderly with hypertension and/or diabetes mellitus and to better understand its' influencing factors. To explore non-adherence, 605 elderly patients in community were surveyed with Modified Morisky Scale (MMS), from Aug 18 to Sept 19, 2008. MMS is designed to predict medication-taking behavior and outcomes, and also to explain persistence of the patient's long-term continuation of therapy, which is a significant factor in the long-term management of chronic diseases. Also, MMS is designed to classify patients into a high/low continuum for knowledge and motivation. Patients self reported medication adherence were average 4.66 with MMS (range 0-6), only 78% of patients hold high motivation of medication adherence although 95.5% of patients hold high knowledge of medication adherence. This study explores which factors influence to high motivation of medication adherence and it proved that patients' participation in work, education level, participation in private health insurance, number of medication and medication frequency per day, pharmacists' explanation, experience of non adherence due to cost are important factors to explain high motivation of medication adherence of elderly with hypertension and/or diabetes mellitus.

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