ArticlePublic health in practice (Oxford, England)2021
Factors related to self-care drug treatment and medication adherence of elderly people in Japan.
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- Promoting Medication Adherence in the Elderly: Factors and Insights From a Cross-Sectional Study.Aging medicine (Milton (N.S.W)) · 2025Article
- Factors associated with perceived medication safety during transitions of care in patients with cancer: A secondary data analysis of a cross-sectional survey.European journal of oncology nursing : the official journal of European Oncology Nursing Society · 2025Article
- Patterns and determinants of medication adherence among older adult patients with diabetes in Korea: insights from a nationwide survey.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Impact of pharmacotherapy complexity on self-care in individuals with rheumatoid arthritis.Revista brasileira de enfermagem · 2025Article
- Discrepancy between Subjective and Objective Measurements for the Evaluation of Medication Adherence-A Cross-Sectional Study in Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Barriers and Facilitators to Medication Adherence among the Vulnerable Elderly: A Focus Group Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The role of stigma and depression in the reduced adherence among young breast cancer patients in Hungary.BMC psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Objectives: The number of home-dwelling elderly people who need drug treatment is increasing with the aging of the population. Elderly people are often suffering from various chronic diseases requiring treatment with multiple drugs, which makes self-care at home difficult. This study focused on medication adherence and aimed to identify the current state of self-care for drug treatment in home-dwelling elderly people and the factors that relate to self-care and medication. Study design: Cross-sectional study. Methods: Medication adherence was measured on a 12-item medication adherence scale for home-dwelling elderly people aged 65 and over who were taking medications. The present condition of medication self-care for home-dwelling elderly people was clarified in terms of medication adherence. Next, we clarified the relationship between medication adherence and other factors such as demographic and clinical characteristics, communication with doctors, and health literacy. Results: The average age was 73.7 (47.2% male). Functional health literacy and communicative health literacy were significantly associated with a high level of medication adherence. There was also a significant association between medication adherence and good communication with doctors. Conclusions: Medication adherence among home-dwelling elderly people was found to be related to the ability to obtain, understand, and communicate information, in addition to the basic literacy skills of health literacy. We also found that good communication with doctors was closely related to medication adherence. Our findings suggest that it is necessary to be consciously involved in promoting health literacy and communication when supporting self-care for medical treatment of home-dwelling elderly people in the future.
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