Observational studyBMC nephrology2015
Understanding barriers to optimal medication management for those requiring long-term dialysis: rationale and design for an observational study, and a quantitative description of study variables and data.
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- Article
- Medication Adherence and Perceptions According to the Presence or Absence of a Migration Background in a Dialysis Unit (DIANA Qualitative Study).Patient preference and adherence · 2025Article
- Medication Adherence Barriers and Their Relationship to Health Determinants for Saudi Pediatric Dialysis Patients.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Structural Equation Modelling to Identify Psychometric Determinants of Medication Adherence in a Survey of Kidney Dialysis Patients.Patient preference and adherence · 2024Article
- Ethnic differences in 25-year risk of incident chronic kidney disease among people with type 2 diabetes in New Zealand.BMJ open diabetes research & care · 2022Article
- Patient-centered Pharmacist Care in the Hemodialysis Unit: a quasi-experimental interrupted time series study.BMC nephrology · 2019Article
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- Oral ulcer activity in Behcet's disease: Poor medication adherence is an underestimated risk factor.European journal of rheumatology · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundRates of medication non-adherence in dialysis patients are high, and improving adherence is likely to improve outcomes. Few data are available regarding factors associated with medication adherence in dialysis patients, and these data are needed to inform effective intervention strategies. METHODS/
designThis is an observational cross-sectional study of a multi-ethnic dialysis cohort from New Zealand, with the main data collection tool being an interviewer-assisted survey. A total of 100 participants were randomly sampled from a single centre, with selection stratified by ethnicity and dialysis modality (facility versus home). The main outcome measure is self-reported medication adherence using the Morisky 8-Item Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS-8). Study data include demographic, clinical, social and psychometric characteristics, the latter being constructs of health literacy, medication knowledge, beliefs about medications, and illness perceptions. Psychometric constructs were assessed through the following survey instruments; health literacy screening questions, the Medication Knowledge Evaluation Tool (Okuyan et al.), the Beliefs about Medication Questionnaire (Horne et al.), the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (Broadbent et al.). Using the study data, reliability analysis for internal consistency is satisfactory for the scales evaluating health literacy, medication knowledge, and beliefs about medications, with Chronbach's α > 0.7 for all. Reliability analysis indicated poor internal consistency for scales relating to illness perceptions. MMAS-8 and all psychometric scores are normally distributed in the study data. DISCUSSION: This study will provide important information on the factors involved in medication non-adherence in New Zealand dialysis patients. The resulting knowledge will inform long-term initiatives to reduce medication non-adherence in dialysis patients, and help ensure that they are addressing appropriate and evidence based targets for intervention.
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