Assessment of the steps taken towards avoidance of medication errors among hypertensive outpatients attending a tertiary health care facility in Nigeria: a cross-sectional study
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Introduction: active involvement of patients in the management of their health has been suggested as a major means of curtailing medication errors. This study aimed to assess the steps taken by hypertensive patients in avoiding medication errors before, during and after clinic visits.Keywords:
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MEDICATION KNOWLEDGE AND ADHERENCE AMONG TYPE II DIABETES MELLITUS PATIENTS: A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY
Diabetes is a chronic complicated disease.For that reason, self-care management and education are necessary to control blood glucose levels todecrease mortality and morbidity rate, the risk of complications and adverse medication related events.Lack of knowledge about a diabetic medication and non-adherence contribute to poor glycemic control among diabetes patients.Therefore, this study aims to assess relationship between medication knowledge and medication adherence among T2DM.A cross sectional study was carried out in outpatient's diabetic clinic in University Malaya Medical Centrevia recruiting 250 participants.A set of questionnaires from earlierresearch were used to collect the data.Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis is used to analyze the data.The inclusive results indicated that, the mean age of the participants was 57.90 ±13.22 within 56years.More than half of patients (52.5%) had poor medication knowledge, and 47.5% had good knowledge.In terms of medication adherence, most of the participants (87.0%) had medium medication adherence; whereas, only 1.3% showed high medication adherence.However, there was no correlation between medication knowledge and medication adherence (p=0.743).The chi-square results indicated that medication knowledge was associated significantly with gender, educational level, employment status and monthly income (p value < 0.05).In conclusion it can be said that this study provides insight for healthcare professional about medication knowledge and adherence which are important for managing diabetes.Awareness of these factors will allow them to be more effective about medication counseling so that patients can become self-responsible and realize the benefits of prescribed therapies.
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Background: The practice of generic medicines prescribing, dispensing, and substitution in developing countries has been controversial among doctors, particularly due to issues on quality, safety, and efficacy. These controversies are as a result of country to country differences in drug policies and laws as well as individualized knowledge and attitudes of healthcare professionals related to generic medicines. Moreover, generic medicines in the past have been criticized for being substandard mainly due to poor adherence with good manufacturing practice guidelines.
Aims and Objectives: The aim of this study is to evaluate and compare knowledge, attitude, and practice of generic drugs among teaching faculties in a tertiary care teaching hospital.
Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out using a questionnaire in a tertiary care teaching hospital in south Gujarat. The questionnaire was designed to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice about generic drugs. The medical teachers working in the institute during the study period were included. The data were analyzed by MS Excel. Responses were calculated in percentage.
Results: Of all participants, 54% were male and majority and 83% were postgraduate degree holders. It was known to 61.8% faculties that generic drug contains the same active substance(s) as the innovator drug, while 63.2% knew that it is used at the same dose(s) to treat the same disease(s) as the innovator drug. Among faculties, 72% believed the fact that generic drug manufacturers need to conduct bioequivalence studies to show equivalence between the generic and innovator drug. Most of the faculties (75%) did not agree that generic drugs are more costly than their innovator counterpart. Among faculties, 59% had not ever switch a patient on innovator drug to available generic drugs. Only 2% were not in favor of supporting generic drug prescribing.
Conclusion: Although a good percentage of medical faculties had knowledge about generic medicines, there was gap on knowledge and perception toward generic and brand drugs. Hence, mass awareness programs seemed to be necessary to fill this gap and that would increase the use of generic drugs which ultimately would reduce healthcare expenditure.
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Background: Nutrition is one of the most important and modifiable environmental factor that may affect the neurocognitive development, which in turn has an impact on academic performance. Medical students generally tend to indulge in erratic lifestyle behaviors such as unhealthy eating habits, skipping meals, inadequate intake of nutrients, irregular sleep, and physical inactivity.
Objective: To examine the dietary habits among undergraduate medical students and to assess its impact on their academic performance
Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional medical college–based study was carried out among 289 young medical college students of both sexes in the age group of 17 to 25 years. Following ethical clearance and consent, information regarding demographic profile, dietary habits, and academic performance was collected using self-administered questionnaire.
Result: Of the 289 medical students, 42.9% were male students and 57.1% were female students and majority of them were on mixed diet. The study participants were grouped into two category as high (≥60%) and low (
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