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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2024
Role of Perceived Social Support in Adherence to Antihypertensives and Controlled Hypertension: Findings of a Community Survey from Urban Nepal.
Social support is considered vital for effective management of chronic conditions, but its role in improving adherence to antihypertensive medication and control of hypertension in urban Nepal is unknown. We examined the role of social support in adherence to antihypertensives and controlled blood pressure to inform future interventions for hypertension management. ⋯ Further studies to understand the quality and mechanisms through which social support contributes to blood pressure control are needed for the health system to include social support in designing and implementing community-based interventions for hypertension management.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2024
Phytomedicines in Pharmacotherapy of LUTS/BPH - What Do Patients Think?
Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) consist of voiding and storage symptoms. While the therapeutic efficacy of current LUTS medications is limited, and with more than 20% of patients suffering from mixed symptoms, current guidelines offer nothing more than combining monotherapies. An individualized approach is urgently warranted, and phytomedicines have become an integral part of patient-empowerment in therapeutic shared-decision making processes. Therefore, we aimed to investigate patients' preference of phytomedicines and treatment adherence at the dawn of an era leaving α1-blocker monotherapies behind. ⋯ We found that phytomedicines were the second most common drug class taken by LUTS patients at our hospital. Reasons may be easy availability as over the counter medication and a superior safety profile with less bothersome side effects than commonly prescribed drug classes. Taken together, phytomedicines may be able to bridge an important gap in LUTS pharmacotherapy to provide sufficient treatment adherence where prescription drug classes fail, and ultimately, adequate improvement of symptoms. However, patients need to be counseled on potentially limited efficacy.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2024
Validation of the Arabic Version of the Attitude Toward Education and Advice for Low Back Pain Questionnaire.
This cross-sectional study aimed to validate the Arabic version of the Attitude toward Education and Advice for Low Back Pain (AxEL) Questionnaire. ⋯ The Arabic version of AxEL is a valid tool that can assess individuals' beliefs and attitudes towards low back pain (LBP). It fills a significant void in cross-cultural research and can help healthcare providers understand the attitudes and beliefs influencing individuals' management of LBP within the Arabic context.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2024
Mediating the Role of Perceived Social Support Between Frailty and Self-Perceived Burden in Elderly Patients with Diabetes.
To explore the mediating effects of perceived social support between frailty and self-perceived burden (SPB) in elderly patients with diabetes and to provide a theoretical basis for reducing that burden. ⋯ The debilitation of elderly patients with diabetes can be reduced by decreasing their SPB through perceived social support. This can be achieved through comprehensive interventions by nurses.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2024
Treatment Adherence and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Patients with Hypertension at Tertiary Healthcare Facility in Lalitpur, Nepal: A Cross-Sectional Study.
Measurement of medication adherence and health-related quality of life is extremely important when planning different health policies. Drug therapy and adherence to medication are critical to prevent complications of hypertension, especially in countries like Nepal, where hypertension is one of the most prevalent diseases. However, this has not been studied in Nepal. This study, hence, aimed to explore medication adherence, factors affecting medication adherence, health-related quality of life, and the correlation between medication adherence and health-related quality of life in hypertensive patients visiting tertiary care health facilities in Lalitpur district of Nepal. ⋯ The treatment adherence of patients to antihypertensive therapy was suboptimal, which could affect the outcome of therapy. Better treatment adherence was correlated with a better health-related quality of life. Hence, both health-care providers and patients should make efforts to increase treatment adherence to attain better HRQOL.