Impact of reminder on medication adherence: a structural equation model, based on study in Sikkim, India

The problem of medication non-adherence has persisted over decades. The rate of adherence decreases with time and improvement in health condition. When patients cannot follow their prescribed medication regime, it leads to deterioration of their health condition and increases their financial costs. This research aims to find the effect of reminder on medication adherence behaviour of patients when "Acceptance of Side Effect", "Quality of Life" and "Medication Beliefs" act as mediators. The sample size of the research was 505. Sampling units comprised patients suffering from different diseases in Central Referral Hospital, Sikkim, India. By developing a Structural Equation Model, the effect of reminder on the mediators and adherence was analysed. The results show a significant positive association between reminder and the three mediators. Reminder has a significant positive effect on adherence (ß=0.637, e=0.055, p=0.001). The effect is higher in the presence of mediators (ß=0.7, e=0.037, p=0.001).

Investigation and analysis on recognition of high-alert medications of physician's advice among clinical nurses from grade three and first-class hospital in chongqing / 中国实用护理杂志

Objective To investigate the recognition of physicians′ advice about high-alert medications among clinical nurses from grade three and first-class hospitals in Chongqing and to analyse the relevant training requirements. Methods Using a multistage stratified cluster sampling strategy, the physicians′ advice recognition questionnaire of High- alert medications for clinical nurses was administered to 3029 nurses in eight hospitals, to test the nurses′ advice recognition of high-alert medication and collecte training suggestions. Results More than 82.70％(1946/2353) of nurses responded correctly for 8 out of the 12 questions, the accuracy rate of pethidine hydrochloride injection test was 97.11％(2285/2353) and the dopamine hydrochloride injection test was only 28.56％(672/2353). The nurses′ recognition of physicians′ advice of high-alert medications in gender, department, working time and annual income was statistically significant (P<0.10). 81.34％(1914/2353) of the nurses were able to recognize 11 out of the total 24 wrong advices. Pre-job training、theoretical knowledge related to physicians′advice and case-based learning are the best training time, content and form. Conclusions The recognition level of high-alert medications by clinical nurses from grade three and first-class hospitals in Chongqing was not high and the clinical nurses with different gender, department, working time and annual income had different abilities, the targeted training for clinical nurses should be provided.