{"id":4892,"date":"2023-08-02T14:06:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T14:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/?p=4892"},"modified":"2023-08-03T14:19:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T14:19:41","slug":"west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2015-26-2-15-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2015-26-2-15-28\/","title":{"rendered":"West African Journal of Pharmacy (2015) 26 (2) 15-28"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Medication adherence among outpatients at the Jos University teaching hospital.<\/b><\/p>

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Rachel Unekwu Odesanya and Ngozi Oragwu<\/p>

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1 Pharmacovigilance and drug safety centre, Pharmacy department, Jos University Teaching Hospital, PMB 2076,\u00a0Plateau State, Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>

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2 Pharmacy department, Jos University Teaching Hospital, PMB 2076, Plateau State, Nigeria.<\/p>

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Corresponding author: Rachel Odesanya<\/p>

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Background: <\/b>For every 100 prescriptions written, 25 to 30 are taken properly. Non adherence to medication is a reality to be addressed by detecting the barriers in order to make interventions aimed at improving medication <\/span>adherence among patients.<\/span><\/p>\n

The aim of this study is to assess the level of medication non adherence among outpatients at the Jos University <\/span>Teaching Hospital in Nigeria and to identify the factors and barriers to medication adherence among the <\/span>patients; alongside educating and counseling the patients in an effort to promote adherence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Methods:<\/b> A cross-sectional prospective study was carried out for 2 months from June 2013 to July 2013 at 6 outpatient departments of the Jos University Teaching Hospital in Plateau State, Northern Nigeria. Patients <\/span>visiting the departments were involved in the study after taking their consent and completing a structured <\/span>questionnaire. Statistical analysis was done using Microsoft Excel and Statistical Package for Social Sciences <\/span>(SPSS) version 17.<\/span><\/p>\n

Results:<\/b> Out of 324 patients, 72 (22%) were non adherent to medication. The common cause of non-adherent behavior was forgetfulness (32%). Chi square test was conducted for categorical variables and adherence to <\/span>medication was positively associated with psychiatry clinic recruits, male gender, higher educational level, <\/span>absence of health insurance, fewer comorbidities, longer duration of condition and therapy, asking questions <\/span>and satisfactory knowledge of medicines (p < 0.05). The result showed that 40% (25) of the 62 non adherent <\/span>patients that needed interventions were educated and counseled on the need to link frequency of <\/span>administration with routine activities so as to promote adherence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Conclusion:<\/b> This study reiterates the need for a systematic assessment of adherence to medication among patients alongside proffering adequate interventions to promote adherence to medication.<\/span><\/p>\n

Keywords:<\/b> barriers, adherence, medication, out patients<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Medication adherence among outpatients at the Jos University teaching hospital. \u00a0 Rachel Unekwu Odesanya and Ngozi Oragwu \u00a0 1 Pharmacovigilance and drug safety centre, Pharmacy department, Jos University Teaching Hospital, PMB 2076,\u00a0Plateau State, Nigeria. \u00a0 2 Pharmacy department, Jos University Teaching Hospital, PMB 2076, Plateau State, Nigeria. \u00a0 Corresponding author: Rachel Odesanya Email: unekwuod@yahoo.com Phone: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4892"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4898,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions\/4898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}