Medication Adherence: A Descriptive Analysis

The Department of Health and Human Services launched Healthy People 2020 to promote quality of life and healthy development across all life ages (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011). As a healthcare professional working at retail sector, one of the pharmacist duties is to improve medication adherence that promote better quality of life for all groups. One of the biggest challenges for healthcare professional is improve medication adherence after the initial discharged of the patient to prevent hospital readmission. According to a study by the New England Healthcare Institute (NEHI), nearly one in five patients discharged from the hospital is readmitted within 30 days and resulted in an estimated total cost of readmissions

The second metrics that Medtronic use to determine and track the quality of reporting to governing bodies is the Medtronic Adoption and Adherence Metric. Medtronic Adoption and Adherence Metric is intended to reflect how effective Clinical Connect has been adopted by teams and how effective Clinical Connect is being used for reporting. Clinical Connect is a management reporting software used by teams when engaging physicians and health care providers. Adoption and Adherence metrics measure both a quantitative and qualitative measure to the adoption and adherence of Clinical Connect by multiple Medtronic Teams. The quantitative and qualitative combination measure the volume and type of issues, actions, potential risk, and decisions accurately

Mark has been in a jovial mood and has been engaging with staff, his anxiety level has very been very law and was not seen once Mark was not feeling well throughout this month. Mark spends time with staff when is in the service and therefore very body enjoys his accompany. The service provides emotional support and this reduces times he might spend in his flat alone and the feel of being isolated.

I have chosen the research topic of medication non-compliance, specifically regarding high blood pressure medication. I see patients very often at my job who do not take their medication because they say they feel fine or they forgot. I do teach my patients that they need to take their medication every day and suggest to take it at the same time as something they already do daily such as eating breakfast but my words seem to fall on deaf ears. Some patients don’t like the way the medication makes them feel so they just stop taking it instead of going back to their doctor. I believe that more visual aids in teaching such as videos that show what is happening inside your body when your pressure is high in addition to meeting stroke patients

The agency I am doing my practicum hours at is a nonprofit mental health agency that serves over 800 adults with mental illness across 28 locations in the Portland Metro Area. Their comprehensive support system includes outpatient clinics, group homes, semi-independent housing, homeless outreach, and peer-delivered programs. I focus on the care of adults, age 18 and over, with serious mental illness, such as Psychotic disorders & Mood disorders in one of the residential settings. Within the home, we are currently serving 17 individuals, who are receiving independent case-management dependent upon individual needs, interrelated with the challenges prevalent in those with mental illness including co-occurring substance abuse and

How would you encourage parents with children to approach a health professional about over prescribing antibiotics that could potential lead to resistance? How would you educate parents to recognize warning flags with over prescribing habits? You state that health education programs need to have the ability to enable and empower parents, how could empower lead to further complications associated with antibiotics? In your opinion what is a approach that could be taken to encourage health professional to reduce prescribing habits while still empowering parents to have guidance and ownership over their families health status?

My preparation for the classroom presentation was to first understand the term of disability and solution focus. In the same way, I want to understand how both disability and solution focus were connected. After research and utilizing text books, I came to an understanding that disability is a mental or physical condition that may disadvantage an individual movement and to prevent further disability is to approach with a goal-directed psychotherapeutic change that will closely response to the client circumstances. Once I understood the two terms, the

Medication is an important treatment for individuals with schizophrenia disorder. Antipsychotics, mood stabilizers and antidepressants are the most popular for treating these individuals (Rubin, Springer, & Trawver, 2010). Because their treatment revolves around medication to help stabilize them, it is important to set up behavioral tailoring interventions. Behavioral tailoring involves cues that remind the individual to take their medication, usually paired with routines (Rubin, Springer, & Trawver, 2010). These routines could be anything from teeth rushing to brushing your hair, and involve set reminders to take the medication (Rubin, Springer, & Trawver, 2010). The adherence to taking the medication has a long-term improvement on their disorder (Rubin, Springer, & Trawver, 2010). Although this is only effective with

For my research project I hoping to look at the effects of technology on the adherence of patients to their medication regime and what effects using more technology would bring to try to and get patients to be more adherent to their medications. Medication adherence has been a big topic for many years and many different experiments and methods have been tried in order to try and increase this adherence in patients. When it comes to medication adherence many people do not do very well due to forgetting to take their medication, not wanting to take their medication or even not being able to pay for their medication they need. Past experiments have looked at the effect of things like the practitioner giving the patient a slight touch while emphasizing they stick to the prescribed regime and this experiment showed that with that touch adherence of the patients and

The provision of health care services being informed by principles of evidence-based care, integration and patient engagement has mixed outcomes for mental health care. Evidence-based care focuses heavily on psychopharmaceuticals compared to psychotherapy in terms of funding because it is easier to present results of different drugs (quantitative data) than to present results of therapy (ex. CBT → qualitative data).

Adherence of antiepileptic medication is the main requirement to achieve the efficacy of the therapy of epilepsy treatment is done. A good quality of life found in someone who can run a function and its role in everyday life as well. This research aims to know the level of antiepileptic medication adherence, quality of life in epileptic patients, as well as the relationship between antiepileptic medication adherence with the quality of life in epileptic patients in outpatient RSUD Prof. Dr. Margono Soekarjo Purwokerto.

Our systematic review demonstrates that the use of GMMs to study medication adherence has increased considerably in the past few years, with no studies having been conducted prior to 2010. This is likely a reflection of the fact that GMMs are a relatively newer statistical technique. For instance, Nagin first introduced GBTMs in 1999, and Muthén introduced GMMs in 2001.23, 24, According to a literature search conducted by Nagin and Odgers, a small, but rapidly developing clinical literature base has emerged since these models were first proposed – from 2000 to 2008, applications of these methods to clinical studies increased from 8 to 80 publications per year.25 Thus, it is perhaps unsurprising, that increased familiarity through application in other clinical areas, led to eventual adoption and popularization of the technique in studying medication adherence. GMMs (and their GBTM counterparts) provide a sophisticated statistical method by which to capture the heterogeneity within a given population, and often map onto how many researchers conceptualize growth, in that, different types of individuals likely exhibit different trajectories of behavior. Given the rapid adoption and application of such models within the clinical literature, and the fact that this modeling technique is relatively novel, it stands to reason that there may be certain methodological nuances which have been overlooked or ignored by researchers. Our review reveals several problematic issues related to

Adherence to Medical Advice a) Adherence to medical advice depends on various factors. Psychologists have carried out research and experiments to find the factors into compliance. Kent and Dalgleish (1996) had claimed that perceived seriousness of illness of the mother was more important than that of the doctors, this meant that mothers who felt their children were more susceptible to illness were more likely to adhere to a medical regime set out by the doctor, and attend the appointments made than those mothers who had a different conviction. The study of Turk and Meinchenbaum (1991) supports the idea that patients are less likely to adhere due to the potential side effects of

Medications and medical appointments. Another intervention the case manager would need to address would be to connect the individual with services that can ensure the individual can receive the necessary medications such as HAART. HAART is a cocktail of medications customized to each infected individual’s viral load and that individuals with HIV must take every day to stave off the progression of AIDS (“What Is HAART?,” 2012). The individual is more likely to continue HIV/AIDS treatment if they are not having to constantly struggle to obtain said treatment.

My informative speech was on what factors influence access to mental health care facilities in the United States. I spoke on how government access, mental health stigma, and public awareness all affect how people can get proper treatment in mental health care facilities. I described how mental health care facilities include school, hospitals, as well as outpatient centers across the nation. I explained why physical and mental health should be treated equally; not with one type of health having more power over the other. My passion for this topic was driven by my desire to be a therapist in the future. I plan on going to graduate school to earn a master's degree so I can help make a difference in people’s lives as a counselor. In my speech,