Evaluation and implementation of behavioral and educational tools that improves the patients' intentional and unintentional non-adherence to cardiovascular medications in family medicine clinics.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

There are limited number of studies describing the reasons and interventions of non-adherence to cardiovascular medications in United Arab Emirates (UAE). We aimed to implement and evaluate the behavioral and educational tools that indicate the reasons of non-adherence in patients with cardiovascular diseases and improve patient's adherence to their cardiovascular medications.

Methods

In this prospective interventional study, we recruited patients (n = 300) with cardiovascular diseases from three family medicine clinics in Al Ain, UAE in 2010. We assessed patients' responses to a validated brief medication questionnaire (BMQ).

Results

At the end of the study, we observed a significant improvement in adherence. When we compared pre- and post-interventions, th

SUBMITTER: Shehab A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4792890 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature