Avaliação da adesão terapêutica em idosos atendidos na atenção primária

Abstract

The results reinforce the need to improve public policy and management processes aimed at ensuring people's access to essential medicines and qualify the process of prescribing health professionals as a way to improve treatment adherence in the elderly.

Adesão ao regime terapêutico medicamentoso e aspectos biopsicossociais dos idosos integrados em cuidados continuados domiciliários

“…This study points out some factors that influence the adherence, such as: bias in the response (the participants respond what they thinks is right in order to satisfy the researcher or for fear that the researcher will contact the members of the health team, informing them about inappropriate use of medicines); the fact that it is an adult population with an average age of 59.5 ± 10.3 years; and the awareness of the severity of the disease (2) . Results that are closer to our study were observed in populations with identical characteristics, for example, among elderly people from Porto Alegre, able to go to the site of the interview and to manage their therapeutic regime, presented a TMRA of 35.4% (1) . The sample of the present study was predominantly of the female gender (64.1%), which coincided with a research conducted in the United States by the University of Southern California, covering 13 countries and concluding that, among a vast adult population aged between 50 and 80 years, the female gender is predominant (11) .…”

“…The lack of TMRA leads to personal, economic and social repercussions, and makes it a relevant public health problem, contributing to an increase in the number of hospitalizations, a decrease in quality of life, and consequently, to the morbidity and mortality of elders, provoking clinical consequences such as falls and the exacerbation of diseases (1) . TMRA is the execution of activities according to a schedule of treatment of the disease and its complications.…”

Medication use by the elderly: analysis of prescribing, dispensing, and use in a medium-sized city in the state of São Paulo

“…The percentage of drug treatment adherence ranged from 26.7% in Teresina (Piaui) 23 to 43.3% in Santa Catarina (Santa Catarina) 24 .…”

“…These are involuntary and unintentional behaviors and are similar to the problems related to non-adherence to treatment described in other Brazilian cities. They can potentially be improved by staff education and guidance strategies, in comparison with intentional non-compliance attitudes 24,25 .…”

Avaliação Da Fragilidade De Idosos Internados Em Serviço De Emergência De Um Hospital Universitário

“…Nesse estudo os pacientes com maior escolaridade foram aqueles que não se lembraram de tomar seus medicamentos, em contradição com uma pesquisa, que apesar do achado não ter significância estatística, os indivíduos com menor escolaridade tiveram menor adesão ao tratamento (15) . Neste estudo os pacientes que consideram sua saúde como ruim possuem maior número de dependentes da renda quando comparados àqueles que consideram sua saúde excelente, muito boa ou boa.…”