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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2019
Implementing person-centered communication in diabetes care: a new tool for diabetes care professionals.
This study tested the clinical implementation of the CoMac Communication System, an empirically validated tool for individualized Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support (DSMES). This system provides immediate feedback and guidance to health care providers (HCPs) to facilitate speaking with persons with type 2 diabetes mellitus in language reflecting patients' own worldviews and health beliefs. ⋯ Findings suggest that use of the CoMac System by diabetes care professionals has the potential for improved patient health outcomes. Patients receiving the CoMac intervention showed significantly improved HbA1c levels, suggesting that this approach has great promise for effective DSMES management.
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Background: Patient-physician communication and textual health information are central to health care. Yet, how well patients understand their physicians and written materials is under-studied. Objectives: Focusing on outpatient health care in Germany, the aim of this research was to assess patients' levels of understanding oral and written health information and to identify associations with socioeconomic variables. ⋯ Fewer patients reported that they understood written materials well (86.7% for last visit at GP, 89.7% for last visit at SP). Difficulties in understanding written materials were strongly correlated with basic education (OR: 4.20, CI: 2.76-6.39) and older age (65 years and above, OR: 2.66, CI: 1.43-4.96). Conclusions: In order to increase patients' understanding of health information and reduce inequalities among patient subgroups, meeting the communication needs of patients of older age, low educational status and with poor health is essential.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2019
A theory-driven qualitative study exploring issues relating to adherence to topical glaucoma medications.
Investigating patients' perceptions of their illness can provide important insights into the experience and management of the illness and associated treatment, and enhance understanding of variations in adherence to prescribed medication. The Common-Sense Model of Self-Regulation (CSM) provides a theoretical framework for the study of illness cognitions, health behavior, and adherence to health recommendations. The aim of this study was to use the CSM to investigate the experience of glaucoma and its treatment from the patients' perspective, and to apply these insights to classify and clarify issues related to nonadherence with treatment. ⋯ Findings provide important insights into the emotional and practical outcomes of glaucoma for patients, perceived symptoms of the illness, and insights into patient memory and cognition. These findings provide supporting evidence for the importance of conducting theoretically driven qualitative investigations of patients' experience with glaucoma and their treatment, and provide suggestions on key issues that need to be addressed in future multidimensional interventions aimed at improving adherence and patient quality of life.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2019
Gender Based Cognitive Determinants Of Medication Adherence In Older Adults With Chronic Conditions.
Life course gender-role traits and social stereotypes could affect the pattern of medication adherence in old age. ⋯ Gender based variations were noted regarding the medication adherence in the studied sample and attributes of cognitive function were the main pinpointed elucidating parameters for the non-conformity. The explicit cognitive processes must be considered in care provision or interventional programs that target medication adherence in older adults.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2019
Illness perception and sense of well-being in breast cancer patients.
The objective of the study was to explore breast cancer patients' illness perception, its relationship to perceived sense of well-being, and the role of perceived social support. ⋯ Significant relationships between illness perception and sense of well-being were observed in breast cancer patients. Strengthening patients' perceived social support would be helpful in improving their sense of well-being.