Assessing Medication Adherence Barriers to Short-Term Oral Antibiotic Treatment in Primary Care-Development and Validation of a Self-Report Questionnaire (BIOTICA).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pharmacists are increasingly involved in strategies to fight antimicrobial resistance by ensuring optimised antibiotic (AB) use, including adherence support. Successful adherence interventions should be tailored to patients' barriers and validated instruments are needed. This study aimed to identify adherence barriers to AB treatment, develop a self-report questionnaire, and validate it in outpatients.

Method

Adherence barriers were identified through a systematic literature search and focus group discussion. Unmodifiable and irrelevant barriers were excluded from further processing. A validation study assessed the questionnaire's internal reliability and construct validity by comparing the questionnaire's score with electronically monitored adherence data.

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SUBMITTER: Haag M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8345617 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature