Drug utilization, medication adherence and treatment satisfaction amongst glaucoma patients receiving care at secondary health facilities
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2023
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Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, United Kingdom
Abstract
Objectives: The objective of this study was to assess treatment satisfaction, medication adherence and drug utilization amongst glaucoma
patients receiving care at secondary health facilities.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted amongst glaucoma patients attending eye clinics of General Hospital Ilorin and Civil Service
Hospital Ilorin in Kwara State, Nigeria from October 2020 to January 2021. Three hundred and eleven patients were enrolled in the study.
Sampling was based on convenience as dictated by the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Ethical permission and informed consent were obtained
before data collection. Validated instruments of Morisky Medication Adherence Scale and Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication
were used during the data collection process. Descriptive and Chi-square analyses were employed.
Key findings: Amongst the 311 patients studied 184(59.2%) were females with a mean age of 63.79 ± 14.89 years. Timolol eye drop was the
drug of choice for monotherapy in (8.7%) of patients. Combination therapy of beta blockers and carbonic anhydrase inhibitors had the highest
number (59.5%) of prescriptions. More than half (55.6%) of the patients were adherents. Participants reported being more satisfied with their
anti-glaucoma therapy in the domain of global satisfaction (62.89 ± 21.85) followed by medication effectiveness (62.67 ± 20.78) and convenience
(60.16 ± 15.79) while medication side effects had the least score (17.17 ± 11.09). There is a statistically significant relationship between patient
satisfaction with treatment and medication adherence at P= 0.001.
Conclusions: Combination therapy was the most frequently utilized anti-glaucoma agent. Most of the patients adhered to their medications
and were satisfied with the treatment received
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adherence, drug utilization, glaucoma, patient satisfaction
Citation
33. Bello, S. I., Ojieabu, W A. & Yusuf, H (2023). Drug utilization, medication adherence and treatment satisfaction amongst glaucoma patients receiving care at secondary health facilities. Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research, 14: 71–78.