Therapeutic adherence and health outcomes in acute coronary syndrome (SCA) patient: the role of nursing (original) (raw)

Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis, 2014

Abstract

The literature on cardiovascular disease has highlighted that therapeutic adherence is often inadequate. What are the reasons for this poor adherence to medication? The goal has been to measure the different factors related to therapeutic adherence, differentiating the SCA patients on three levels of self-referred therapeutic adherence and delving the relations between self-reported therapeutic adherence and socio-demographic, clinical, emotive, cognitive and socio-relational variables. A total of 84 Italian patients (66.7% males) with (SCA) took part in the study and completed a semi-structured questionnaire investigating the variables described above. RESULTS indicate the influence of clinical variables, showing that patients suffer more of dyspnea and angina symptoms than those that state to follow prescriptions. But the emotive aspects seem able to interfere more with the adherence: the subjects scarcely adherent have felt more threatened by their illness, and experimented more...

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