CORRELATION BETWEEN REPORTED LEVELS OF THERAPEUTIC COMPLIANCE AND GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION OF PATIENT RESIDENCE

SHAKEEL AHMAD MIR

doi:10.22159/ajpcr.2023.v16i1.46433

Authors

SHAKEEL AHMAD MIR Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3438-8774

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22159/ajpcr.2023.v16i1.46433

Keywords:

Therapeutic compliance, Non-compliance, Urban, Rural, Medication

Abstract

Objectives: Globally, healthcare suffers from the urban-rural and rich-poor divide. Our objective is to assess differences in therapeutic compliance between rural and urban adults.

Methods: In a questionnaire-based study of outpatients, we assessed 400 adult outpatients selected by simple randomization.

Results: The patients belonging to urban areas had better therapeutic compliance as compared to those belonging to rural areas. About 53.1% of patients from urban areas had good compliance as compared to 22.9% of patients from rural areas (p<0.001).

Conclusion: Our findings reveal statistically significant differences in therapeutic compliance between rural and urban population.

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Author Biography

SHAKEEL AHMAD MIR, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.

Associate Professor

Clinical Pharmacology

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