Adherence to Lipid Lowering Drugs (Statins) in Patients Attending Family Medicine Clinic at Jordan University Hospital

作者：Barghouti Farihan F^*; Yasein Nada A

来源：International Medical Journal, 2012, 19(2): 115-119.

• adherence
• statins
• family practice

Objectives: to study the rate of adherence in patients of family medicine practice to lipid lowering drugs (statins) and to identify factors associated with adherence to these medications.
Design: A cross-sectional study.
Material and Methods: we conducted the study on 200 dyslipidemic patients attending family practice clinic at Jordan University hospital who aged 40 years and older and been on statins for more than one year, from February to May 2011, using a self reported questionnaire that consists of Morisky scale and factors which affect adherence to medications.
Result: The mean age of the studied sample was 58.73 years with standard deviation of +/- 9.8. On Morisky scale, 75.5% of patients reported high level of adherence. Patients who had taken more than 7 medications are nearly three times (OR = 2.902, 95% CI: 1.025-8.22) more likely to be adherent to statins than who had taken less than 7 medications, also patients who were hypertensive were nearly three times (OR = 2.888, 95% CI: 1.432-5.821) more adherent than who were normotensives, and patients who were non-depressed were two times (OR 2.18995% CI: 1.064-4.504) more adherent than who were depressed.
Conclusions: In our study 75.5% of our patients were highly adherent to their statins and we found that patients using comorbid medications more than seven are adherent to statins while depression was associated with medication nonadherence. Future interventions for improving statin adherence will rely heavily on healthcare provider education concerning the reasons for non adherence to statins.

• 出版日期2012-6