What influences persistence with medicines? A multinational discrete choice experiment of 2549 patients.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

The aim was to examine patients' stated preferences to persist with medicines and to explore the influence of psychosocial and sociocognitive factors.

Methods

Community-dwelling, hypertensive patients recruited from nine European countries were invited to complete a discrete choice experiment (DCE) with attributes for treatment benefits, mild yet common adverse drug reactions (ADRs), rare but potentially life-threatening ADRs and dosing frequency. Patients responded to the binary choice of which medicine would they be most likely to continue taking. Data were analyzed using a random effects logit model.

Results

Two thousand five hundred and forty-nine patients from Austria (n = 321), Belgium (n = 175), England (n = 315), Germany (n = 266), Greece (n = 288), Hungar

SUBMITTER: Holmes EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4972169 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature