Understanding Medication Non-Adherence Causes and Consequences

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Medication non-adherence is one of factors that lead to therapy failure. There are 30% to 60% of the patients who are non-adherence to their medication and this may create a series of problems. Medication adherence mean by the extent where patients are able to follow or implement to the prescribed medication. On the other hand, the meaning of medication non-adherence is patients failed to follow the medication prescribed by health care professionals. [1]
There are many factors that can lead to such problems. The factors such as patients are lack of trust in medication given by doctors or they are lack of trust in young doctors due to their ages. In addition, patients who are lack of knowledge about their treatment can lead to non-adherence. …show more content…

Intentional non-adherence of medication means by patients actively or purposely decides not to follow or use the recommended treatment. The reasons can be due to their level of cognition and their beliefs. Patients will weight or compare the pros and cons of the treatment from the information they received from friends. By comparing the side effects and other adverse effects occur such as drug dependency, they will choose to discontinue their therapy and lead to medication non-adherence. For unintentional non-adherence, it is not related to the level of cognition and beliefs of patient. Mostly, the reasons lead to unintentional non-adherence is the complexity of medication, forgetfulness of patient due to old age or busy with other issues and patient may not understand exactly how to use or take medicines. …show more content…

These allowed physicians to count whether the correct amount of medicines had been consume by patients. However, the disadvantage of this method is that patient may discard the medicines without consuming it. In addition, physicians can detect medication adherent through achievement of treatment goals. It can be done by observing the medical condition of patients whether they have been recovering from disease or not. Through the recovery of patients, we can said that patients are adherent to medication prescribed by

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