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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2020
Trivial or Troublesome: Experience with Coronary Heart Disease Medication from the Patient's Perspective.
Living with coronary heart disease (CHD) usually means being prescribed several medications to help prevent new cardiac events. Using medicines for long-term conditions impacts on day-to-day life, and coping with medicines can be burdensome and can affect the quality of life. To enable better support of these patients, we need to understand their collective medicine-related experience. ⋯ Patients' medicine-related experiences after CHD vary greatly. The findings of this study highlight a need for more individualized support for patients using medicines for secondary prevention. The patients often needed better dialogue with healthcare providers to optimally manage their medicines. Medicine-related support for these patients should encompass various aspects of medicine-taking.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2020
Modeling Lay People's Ethical Attitudes to Organ Donation: A Q-Methodology Study.
Organ donation is commonly evaluated by biomedical ethicists based largely on principlism with autonomy at the top of the "moral mountain." Lay people may differ in the way they invoke and balance the various ethical interests. We explored lay people's ethical attitudes to organ donation. ⋯ 1) On average, recipient benefit, requirement of both explicit donor consent and family approval, donor-recipient relationship, and motives were predominant considerations; 2) ranking of some statements was associated with respondents' demographics; 3) Q-methodology identified various ethical resolution models that were partially masked by averaging-analysis; and 4) strong virtue and familism approaches in our respondents provide some empirical evidence against principlism adequacy.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2020
A Brief Metric Framework for Patient Adherence to Doctor's Advice Based on Behavioral Economics.
This study tried to establish a metric framework of patient adherence to doctor's advice based on the expected utility and prospect theories, and it explained why the key to patient adherence to doctor's advice is patients' perceptions. ⋯ The results indicate that without the necessary information, better clinical techniques may not help to improve patient adherence, which support our theoretical reasoning forcefully. Therefore, improving patient adherence should be more of a process of empathy and communication rather than a promotion of medical technology.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2020
Maternal Satisfaction with Delivery Services of Government Hospitals in Ambo Town, West Shoa Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia, 2020.
Maternal satisfaction with delivery service is used to measure the ability of services provided to meet consumers' expectations. Satisfying women with the care given during labor and delivery helps to develop a positive childbirth experience and a favorable attitude towards motherhood. There were limited studies that assessed maternal satisfaction in Ethiopia, and this study aimed to assess delivery service satisfaction and its associated factors among mothers who gave birth at public hospitals of Ambo town, West Ethiopia. ⋯ The level of maternal satisfaction with the delivery services in this study was moderate. Monthly income, maternal birth outcome and maintenance of privacy were significantly associated with maternal satisfaction.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2020
ReviewPatient-Pharmacist Interaction in Ethiopia: Systematic Review of Barriers to Communication.
Despite the fact that pharmaceutical care has been expanding simultaneously with the increasing role of pharmacists and the number of prescriptions dispensed, the extended role of community pharmacists is largely confined to the dispensing of medications. This advancement in pharmacy services demands competent pharmacists and patient-centered communication. The objective of this review was to explore the barriers to patient-pharmacy interaction. ⋯ Factors like not wanting to talk much, bad attitude toward the pharmacy, being in a rush to leave, lack of willingness, language and educational status of the patient were patients' communication obstacles while high patient load, the suitability of dispensing area, and waiting time for service were associated challenges for patient-centered communication faced by health facilities. Barriers to patient-pharmacist interactions were related to patients, pharmacy professionals, and health institutions. These factors are not independent and the presence of one factor may trigger others and further compromise the patient-pharmacist interaction and result in poor medication outcomes.