Haemodialysis and Drug Politherapy: the Compliance to the Therapeutic Products in a Population of Dialysed Patients at S. Vito Center

Abstract

Adherence to treatments represents one of the most successful clinical factor in patients undergoing chronic disease, like CKD. Althought, many factors could decrease adherence, nurses and doctors are called to strengthen the patients partnership in order to improved it. This study refers to a survey which took place with 56 patients, of a sample of 70, who were undergoing dialysis treatment in San Vito Hospital in Turin. The study helped to enhance the elements which more influence drug adherence, home drug compliance, drug knowledge and expected clinical outcomes. These datas contributed to understand patients' educational needs, areas and topic that doctors and nurses should look for to get better clinical outcomes. To forget treatment pills had shown to be the most frequent reason for non adherence, followed by unfriendly prescribed time-schedule that hardly matched with ones's life style. The given questionnaire showed that better drug knowledge and limited number of pills decreased the burdening of treatments, thas increasing patients' adherence. On the contrary, clear provision of information from health personals did not show to be relevant key factor. At the end of the study the caring group decided up the implementation of some actions in order to improve patients' outcomes. (sian) (nursing)