Ways to Improve Medication Adherence in Chronic Disease Patients – A Review

Abstract

Adherence has been defined as the “voluntary, active, and collaborative involvement of the patients in mutually acceptable courses of behaviour to produce desired therapeutic effects”. Medication adherence generally illustrates the term as to whether the patients take their medicines as per prescription instruction and either they keep on to take a prescribed medication. Medication adherence performance has thus been classified into two head conceptions, namely, adherence and persistence. Whilst theoretically similar, adherence refers to concentration of drug utilization for the duration of the ongoing treatment, whereas persistence refers to the general interval of drug therapy. Improving prescription adherence may impact the well-being of the populace than the revelation of any new treatment. Indian patients are not adherent to their medication half the time, mainly due to lack of proper education and patient counselling. Albeit most doctors do not accept adherence basically because of the absence of access or neglect, and no adherence can frequently be a purposeful decision made by the Indian patients. Persistent covering of their medicine taking conduct is regularly persuaded by feelings with respect to both supplier and the patient, prompting possible desperate outcomes. On time medicine taking behaviour of the patients have great impact on the health of people than the need for new treatment option. KEY WORDS Medication Adherence, Drug Therapy, Prescription, Wellbeing, Compliance, Chronic Disease