Beliefs, perceptions and practices about asthma among Iranian asthma patients

Heidarnazhad, Hassan; Tavasoli, Sanaz

doi:10.26719/2009.15.4.912

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“…Hence, patients with respiratory conditions need more education about prevention and control of symptoms. [ 15 ] Other factor that has been influenced by education in this study was rate of treatment satisfaction. The satisfaction in the intervention group was significantly higher than control group.…”

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“…Patients often use alternative medicines and practices alongside conventional medical ones, and clinicians should be aware of these to optimize health education and clinical management. [ 15 ]…”

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“…In this case, we can review the study performed by Heidarnazhad and Tavasoli in 2009 where many patients with a history of using inhalers did not use them regularly (41.9%); the major reason reported was feeling no need to use medication during symptom-free intervals. [ 15 ]…”

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Objective:Hospitalization and subsequent discharge home often involve discontinuity of care, multiple changes in medication regimens, and inadequate patient education regarding the instruction of drug use, respiratory devices, and disease information and also lack of information about the drug's side effects that can lead to medication nonadherence and low level of treatment satisfaction. Hence, we decided to design a study to determine the effect of patient counseling at discharge and also their follow-up by pharmacist on their treatment satisfaction and medication adherence.Methods:A total number of 154 patients within the age of 18-65 years old participated in the study from August 2013 to March 2014. Patients in the intervention group received pharmacist counseling and necessary education about their prescribed medications at discharge. We set up two follow-up schedules for this group and one for control group, and then we compared the medication adherence and satisfaction in two groups. The primary outcome of this study was a significant increase in adherence to medication regimen and treatment satisfaction of the case group compare to control group after the intervention of pharmacist at the time of discharge.Findings:There were significant differences in medication adherence and satisfaction between the groups at the time of second follow-up. Medication adherence in the study group is 42.9% more than the control group, also the treatment satisfaction determined to be 33.5% more than patients in control group. Furthermore, we found that, in intervention group, no one is readmitted while among the patients in control group eight people readmitted.Conclusion:Counseling patients at the time of discharge and regular follow-up improves patient's medication adherence and treatment satisfaction and consequently improves clinical outcomes.

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Living with Λ

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Arraut²

2008

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The return of the cosmological constant Λ to explain the accelerated stage of the universe has brought back many puzzles and misteries surrounding this constant. These enigmas touch upon the scales set by Λ, the cosmological aspect, the astrophysical effects of Λ and its role in quantum gravity. We will briefly discuss all these aspects putting the emphasis on issues not commonly known. together with the energy conservation:For a spatially flat universe i.e k = 0 we can re-write one of the equations in the formwhereand Λ = 8πG N ρ vac The acceleration means thatä > 0 which would be impossible to achieve without modifications (in our case the modification enters in form of Λ) of either the Einstein's tensor of the cosmological energy-momentum tensor. The cosmological equations (1) imply thenCuriously, these limiting values are close to the observational ones, namely Ω Λ0 0.7 (subscripts with 0 refer to values at the present epoch). An intuitive understanding of the accelerated expansion is given by the Newtonian Limit. For a spherically symmetric object with mass M we can use the Schwarzschild-de Sitter metricwithUsing the well known connection between the zero-zero component of the metric and the gravitational potential Φone obtainsThe last term plays the role of a repulsive external force! The Galilean spacetime gets replaced by Newton-Hooke spacetime where each two space points go apart due to the cosmological constant (this is the part of the cosmological expansion which survives the Newtonian limit). Although, our universe is governed by a particular value of ρ vac close to the critical density, it is illustrative to consider other cases. What kind of universes are possible with Λ or what type of universes can we encounter in a multi-verse (according to the anthropic principle which would, in principle, allow a variety of universes). To this end, let us consider universes with k = 0 [2]. In such a case, one of our cosmological equations becomesSince k is a constant we can use this equation to writeWe look now for values of Λ which give us a quasi-static universe for zero pressure (p = 0). The latter implies ρ = ρ 0 a −3 . Together with (8) andȧ =ä = 0 this allows us to search for the critical scale factor a and the value of Λ. After some elementary algebra the equation we obtain for this critical value iswith x = 2Ω Λ0 Ω m0

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Beliefs, perceptions and practices about asthma among Iranian asthma patients

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Role of pharmacist counseling in pharmacotherapy quality improvement

Role of pharmacist counseling in pharmacotherapy quality improvement

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