Research on the statusand influencing factors of compliance of inhalation therapy in patients with chronic airway diseases / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To investigate the adherence of patients with chronic airway disease with inhalation therapy and to explore the influencing factors.Methods:A total of 180 outpatients with chronic airway disease were selected by convenient sampling. The general information, adherence of inhalation therapyquestionnaire, asthma knowledge questionnaire, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) health literacy questionnaire (COPD-Q) were used to evaluate the general information, adherence of inhalation therapy and disease knowledge level of the patients. The severity of the disease was evaluated by asthma control test (ACT) score and COPD assessment test (CAT) score. ANOVA and t-test were used to analyze the adherence of patients with chronic airway disease, and multivariate linear regression was used to analyze the adherence. Results:The adherence score of asthma patients was 89.74 ± 7.27 and the adherence score of COPD patients was 86.80 ± 9.16, which were in the middle level. The risk factors of non-adherence of inhalation therapy were retirement, living alone and smoking. The effect of inhaled treatment time on the adherence of inhaled therapy is not linear, and the turning point of adherence decline occurs one year after the patients received inhaled therapy. The results of multiple linear regression showed that the effect of course and employment on the adherence of inhalation therapy was statistically significant.Conclusions:The adherence of chronic airway disease patients with inhalation therapy is not ideal, especially for the patients with long course, smoking, retirement and living alone, the medical staff should pay more attention, take appropriate intervention measures to improve the adherence of inhalation therapy.