RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PATIENTS’ MEDICATION NON-ADHERENCE AND QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE OUTCOME
*Chike H. Ezeoke PhD, Amy Gangal, Mathew Brooks, Titus Ibekwe MD, Bruce Lazar PhD
ABSTRACT
Background: Adherence to medication is not only important to hypertension but also to other chronic disease conditions that require long-term therapy for effective clinical outcomes and improvement of individual health status. Aims/Objectives: This work is therefore aimed at establishing the relationship between patients ‘medication beliefs mediated by non-adherence and quality of health care outcomes. Methodology: A correlational quantitative study on respondents conducted across the United States of America via online (monkey-survey) self-administered questionnaire. Result: One hundred and thirty-four (134) respondents age between 30-65 years, had their results assessed and subjected to multiple regression to test the relationship between Drug Adherence and outcome(P≤0.05). Conclusion: Adherence and non-adherence significantly affected the relationship between patient medication beliefs and quality of health care outcome.
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