Factors affecting Adolescents' Adherence to Therapeutic Recommendations after Thalassemia
الباحث الأول:
Wameedh Hamid Shaker
الباحثين الآخرين:
Wameedh Hamid Shaker
المجلة:
International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, Volume 5, Issue 12, December 2015
تاريخ النشر:
None
مختصر البحث:
Abstract:
Objective: to assess thalassemic adolescents for their adherence to therapeutic recommendations. To find out whether the patients centered factors, disease and therapy related social and economic factors affective the adolescent's adhere…
Abstract:
Objective: to assess thalassemic adolescents for their adherence to therapeutic recommendations. To find out whether the patients centered factors, disease and therapy related social and economic factors affective the adolescent's adherence to therapeutic recommendations.
Methodology: The study covered a sample of 399 patient's thalassemia. From January 5th 2014 to December 29th each individual in the sample was interviewed using a specific questionnaire form.
Conclusion: the majority of the study sample are living in rural residential area (60.9%) of the completely sample which are the live resident be far in the thalassemia center ( researcher opinion ) .the dominant age group of the study sample is within the (12-13) years (36.6%) because of the adolescent stage is a gene disorder . the relationship between the studied factors and the patients adherence to medication and follow up is high significant.
Recommendation: Improvement patient care, reinforcement of medical education and enhanced efforts by clinical staff to provide practical knowledge to adolescent with thalassemia major and their parents is binding to significantly improve patient compliance to treatment. Additional researches are needed to investigate factors affecting compliance with treatment regimen. Healthiness oriented mass media in providing information to people about thalassemia and other genetic diseases.
