Relationship between compliance of endocrine treatment and medication beliefs in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer patients / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To clarify the relationship between endocrine treatment compliance and medication beliefs of estrogen receptor-positive (ER +) breast cancer patients. Methods Totally 219 patients who were diagnosed as breast cancer and received endocrine therapy in a tertiary hospital were investigated using general condition questionnaire, Morisky Medication Adherence Scale, Beliefs about Medicine Questionnaire(BMQ)by means of face to face,telephone,WeChat.Data analysis was conducted by SPSS 19.0. Results The score of universal beliefs for ER+breast cancer patients was(13.38±5.35) points.The score of the necessary perception was(9.98±4.69)points.The score of the adverse effects of medication was (5.35 ± 2.67) points. The drug compliance score was (5.82 ± 2.15) points.The correlation coefficient of the medication beliefs and the endocrine treatment compliance was 0.578.The Pearson correlation coefficient of each dimension and the total questionnaire was 0.411 to 0.456. Conclusions For ER+breast cancer patients, the higher the medication beliefs is, the better the endocrine treatment compliance is.So it is provided an insight that nurses should enhance the ER +breast cancer patients′medication beliefs in order to get a better and longer survival life.