scholarly journals Factors Affecting Drug Compliance in Paediatric Asthma

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-35
Author(s):  
Rajesh Kumar Singh ◽  
Rajeev Kumar Thapar ◽  
Rakesh Kumar Gupta ◽  
Abhijit YV
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Asthma ◽  
Inhaled Corticosteroids ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Care Centre ◽  
Drug Compliance ◽  
Tertiary Care Centre ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Academic Qualification ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
And Gender

Introduction: Childhood asthma is an immensely important chronic disease in children with increasing prevalence worldwide. Inhaled corticosteroids and bronchodilators are the key drugs in asthma therapy.Material and Methods: Compliance of childhood asthma was assessed at a tertiary care centre to find out the percentage of compliant Vs noncompliant patients and the reasons for the latter. If the patient had attended at least nine visits (> 75%) the previous year he was labelled compliant and those with less than six visits (<50%) were put in the non-complaint group.Results: Of the 374 patients attending the asthma clinic, 60 were randomly selected for the study of which 53 finally participated. In this study the compliance was 47% and gender predilection did not affect compliance. The distance a patient had to commute to reach the hospital and the mother’s education did not have any influence on the compliance. Older asthmatics exhibited better compliance in our study.Conclusion: Forty percent of our patients were compliant to regular use of prescribed medicine. Older age of the patients and care giver`s awareness about asthma were the two factors which are statistically significant in compliance with drug therapy in asthma. Gender of the patient, academic qualification and distance from the hospital did not have a significant effect on compliance.

scholarly journals Factors affecting on Adherence to the Prescribed Drugs in Diabetic Patients Visiting a Tertiary Care Centre

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-17
Author(s):  
Bijay Thapa ◽  
Paras Kumar Pokharel ◽  
Ishwori Sharma Poudel ◽  
Sanjib Kumar Sharma ◽  
Pramod Mohan Shyangwa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Diabetic Patients ◽  
Care Centre ◽  
Tertiary Care Centre ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Medical College

Journal of Nobel Medical College Vol. 2, No.2 Issue 4 May-October 2013 Page 11-17 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jonmc.v2i2.8799

scholarly journals A study on the demographic features of cancer patients done in a tertiary care centre in South India

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL2) ◽  
pp. 194-200
Author(s):  
Mathupriya S G ◽  
Ganthimathy Sekhar ◽  
Porchelvan S
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Care Centre ◽  
Tertiary Care Centre ◽  
Cancer Breast ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Screening And Prevention ◽  
One Year

Cancer is a major cause of increased morbidity and mortality in today’s world. Several studies have shown that its incidence is governed by the gender and age of a person. The site and histological subtype of cancer vary between different age groups and sex. Knowledge of the demography of cancer in affected individuals will help in planning screening and prevention strategies. The present study was done to analyse the site of different cancers among various age groups and gender in patients coming to a tertiary care centre. Data of cancer patients was retrospectively analysed in terms of age, sex, site, and histopathological subtypes. The histopathological reports of all cases of cancer recorded at the histopathology laboratory of the tertiary care centre during a one year period- November 2017 to October 2018 were perused and the findings were recorded. Analysis of the data was done using SPSS version 17 to obtain the statistical significance. There were a total of 330 cases of cancer recorded during the study period. Out of these, 143 were male and 187 were female. Age group between 51 and 60 years had the maximum number of cases of cancer. Breast cancer in female and stomach cancer and oropharyngeal cancer in male were found to be more common. Among the histological subtypes, adenocarcinoma was found to be the most commonest across all ages and in both sexes.

scholarly journals Factors affecting breastfeeding techniques among postnatal mothers: an experience in a tertiary care centre

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 2991
Author(s):  
Shubhra Agarwal Gupta ◽  
Mini Sharma ◽  
Abha Ekka ◽  
Nirmal Verma
Keyword(s):  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Mode Of Delivery ◽  
Delivery Mode ◽  
Care Centre ◽  
Interventional Study ◽  
Tertiary Care Centre ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Lactating Mothers ◽  
Postnatal Mothers

Background: Large number of factors related to mother and neonates can affects breastfeeding technique. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to know the association of maternal and neonatal characteristics that can affect correct breastfeeding techniques after intervention among post natal mothers admitted in a tertiary care centre.Methods: An institutional-based pre and post interventional study design was used. 414 lactating mothers were contacted during study period.Results: It was found that parity, time of delivery, mode of delivery, birth weight were statistically significantly associated with correct breast feeding technique.Conclusions:This study highlights that correct breastfeeding technique depends on various factors related to mother and neonate. 

Causes and Demographic Factors Affecting Stillbirth in a Tertiary Care Centre in India

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pradnya Changede ◽  
Sneha Venkateswaran ◽  
Arun Nayak ◽  
Dinesh Wade ◽  
Priyanka Sonawane ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Care Centre ◽  
Tertiary Care Centre ◽  
Factors Affecting

scholarly journals A Study on Knowledge, Awareness, and Medication Adherence in Patients with Hypertension from a Tertiary Care Centre from Northern Sri Lanka

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Pirasath ◽  
T. Kumanan ◽  
M. Guruparan
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Target Organ Damage ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Disease Status ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Care Centre ◽  
Drug Compliance ◽  
Tertiary Care Centre ◽  
Hypertensive Patients

Objective. To assess the patient’s knowledge and awareness about hypertension and adherence to antihypertensive medication among hypertensive patients with validated Morisky questionnaires in a tertiary care centre of northern Sri Lanka. Methods. A cross-sectional descriptive comparative study was carried out at Teaching Hospital Jaffna, from January 2017 to April 2017. Hypertensive patients were recruited by systematic randomized controlled sampling and interviewed with validated Morisky questionnaires to assess their knowledge about hypertension. Data were analyzed using SPSS (version 21) analytical package. Results. 73 of 303 patients were males. 69.9% of patients had adequate knowledge about hypertension. 40.5% of patients were unaware of their disease status. 75.8% of patients could not recall their blood pressure values at the time of diagnosis. 72.3% of patients were unaware of their values of blood pressure during their last outpatient clinic visit. 48.2% of patients had awareness of target organ damage due to hypertension (kidney, 72, 23.7%; heart, 128, 42.2%; brain, 140, 46.7%; eye, 42, 13.8%). Most of the patients had poor drug compliance. The most common reasons for nonadherence were forgetfulness (70, 23.1%) and interruptions of daily routine (53, 17.5%). Conclusion. The knowledge about hypertension among majority of patients was reasonable. But they were unaware of their disease status. The drug compliance among them was poor. Forgetfulness and interruptions of daily routine were common reasons attributed for nonadherence.

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