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American Journal of Drug Discovery and Development

Year: 2013 | Volume: 3 | Issue: 2 | Page No.: 106-112
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Suranjana Banik

Debasis Ray

Shishir Kumar

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Analyzing the Pattern of Prescription Noncompliance in Patients of Cardiac and Diabetic Clinic of a Tertiary Care Hospital

Suranjana Banik, Debasis Ray and Shishir Kumar
To ascertain the prevalence and find possible causes of patient non-compliance to prescription medication in patients suffering from chronic diseases like Diabetes and Cardiac diseases attending in tertiary centre of the state. A total of 400 patients attending Cardiac and Diabetic clinic of AGMC and GBP Hospital and who were prescribed medications and other advices for at least for last one month or more were selected randomly and were interviewed as per preformatted questionnaire and were labeled as compliant or non-compliant as per their answers and possible reason/reasons of non compliance were enquired and data was analyzed statistically. As per this study, 286 (71.5%) were non-compliant and 114 (28.5%) were compliant. Various factors or causes exist behind noncompliance. Out of total 286 noncompliant patients, 205 patients (71.7%) cited forgetfulness as the reason of noncompliance. Non-compliance showed statistically significant relation with socioeconomic background of the patient (p<0.01), 193 (67.5%) out of 286 non-complaints said that they failed to purchase the drug due to economic reason. This study suggested forgetfulness and economic insufficiency as the main reason behind non-compliance. So drug supply to the patients at affordable prices, rational drug prescription should be encouraged. Besides reminder systems, counseling and role of physicians to motivate the non-compliant patients can reduce non-compliance and associated morbidity and mortality.
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