Aspectos relacionados al cumplimiento de medicamentos en un grupo de encargados(as) de niños y adolescentes con epilepsia / Aspects related to drug adherence in a group of caregivers of children and adolescents with epilepsy
P. R. health sci. j
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20(3): 257-267, Sept. 2001.
Artículo
en Español
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RESUMO
The purpose of this study was to describe the aspects related with the adherence of medicine in patients with epilepsy diagnosis. The non probabilistic sample was composed by fifty-four parents or legal guardians of children/adolescents with epilepsy. A self-report instrument was utilized in this study and the design was based on Health Belief Model. Descriptive statistics were utilized (mean, median, frequencies and percents) to describe the results and crosstabs tables to describe specific relations between variables. It was found that the parents/legal guardians reported that they administered their children's medications as prescribed. However, the two aspects that most affect the adherence with the treatment were that the participant forgot the medicine administration and the time between each medical appointment. We conclude that the adherence problem is complex and involved a lot of individual, social, psychological, structural, attitudes, beliefs, type of medical services factors, among others. These factors will be studied more emphatically in futures studies.
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Índice:
LILACS (Américas)
Asunto principal:
Cooperación del Paciente
/
Cuidadores
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Epilepsia
Tipo de estudio:
Estudio pronóstico
Límite:
Adolescente
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Adulto
/
Niño
/
Child, preschool
/
Femenino
/
Humanos
/
Lactante
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Masculino
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Recién Nacido
País/Región como asunto:
Caribe
/
Puerto Rico
Idioma:
Español
Revista:
P. R. health sci. j
Asunto de la revista:
Medicina
Año:
2001
Tipo del documento:
Artículo
País de afiliación:
Puerto Rico
Institución/País de afiliación:
Hospital Municipal de San Juan/PR
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Universidad de Puerto Rico/PR
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