Mantzourani, Efthymia  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6313-1409, Potter Floyd, Georgia and James, Delyth
2017.
Pharmacy students' reflections on a 'mock medicines' activity: Exploring intentional and unintentional nonadherence.
Pharmacy Education
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, pp. 1-7.
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Abstract
Objective. To engage pharmacy students in a ‘mock medicines’ teaching activity to increase their understanding of the patients’ perspectives of medicine-taking. To explore students’ awareness of intentional reasons for non-adherence. Methods. Students were given one of five different dosing regimes and asked to take the mock medicine (TicTacs©) over a one-week period. They completed a data capture form to log each dose taken or missed and provide reasons for this. An adherence score was calculated and all feedback transcribed for further analysis. Results. Seventy-six out of 115 students submitted forms, where adherence ranged from 4 to 100% (mean 88.7, SD=19.77). Nine factors relating to unintentional non-adherence were identified compared to only one for intentional non-adherence. Conclusions. Students engaged well with this activity showing a high percentage adherence but this was not related to the complexity of dosing schedule. Students demonstrated more awareness of the unintentional reasons for non-adherence than intentional.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Published Online |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Pharmacy |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Patient perspectives, intentional non-adherence, unintentional non-adherence, mock medicines, pharmacy undergraduate education |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| ISSN: | 1560-2214 |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 6 February 2017 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 23 November 2016 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Nov 2024 14:45 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/98086 |
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