Understanding towards Medications and Medication Adherence among HIV-Infection /AIDs Patients: Case study in a Hospital in Sakon Nakhon
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Objective: To examine understanding on medications and medication adherence among HIV/AIDS patients, and to study the relationship between these two variables. Method: This research was a cross-sectional study in 280 subjects selected by convenience sampling. Medication adherence was measured by pill counting. The Thai Medication Understanding Questionnaire was used to assess understanding on medications. Results: Most of the participants had good understanding on medication (having the score equal or greater than 5) and medication adherence was at a good level (97.75% of adherence). The medication understanding and medication adherence were positively and significantly correlated (P<0.05). The study also revealed the relationship between drug understanding and personal factors including occupations, duration of drugs taking, experiences of side effects from antiviral drugs, CD4 cell level, and viral load (P<0.05). Moreover, the study also found the relation between medication adherence and health benefit schemes (P<0.05). Conclusions: The study revealed a correlation between medication understanding and medication adherence and factors associated with medication understanding and medication adherence. The results of the study could be used to develop a patient care model to help them realize the importance of medication taking to suppress the virus load, which is an important target of antiretroviral therapy.
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ผลการวิจัยและความคิดเห็นที่ปรากฏในบทความถือเป็นความคิดเห็นและอยู่ในความรับผิดชอบของผู้นิพนธ์ มิใช่ความเห็นหรือความรับผิดชอบของกองบรรณาธิการ หรือคณะเภสัชศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยสงขลานครินทร์ ทั้งนี้ไม่รวมความผิดพลาดอันเกิดจากการพิมพ์ บทความที่ได้รับการเผยแพร่โดยวารสารเภสัชกรรมไทยถือเป็นสิทธิ์ของวารสารฯ
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