HCPs’ usual care activities to support adherence to statins
HCPs’ (physicians, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians) usual care
activities to support medication adherence to statins are reported in
table 2. The median usual care activities total scores ranged from 21-23
between the three subgroups (table 3). The highest median sum scores (as
percentage of the maximum sum score) were found on sub scales for
attitude and facilitation (for all types of HCPs) and awareness (for
physicians). The lowest median sum scores were found on sub scales for
action control and social influence (for all HCPs) (table 3).
The top three most frequently reported usual care activities by
physicians were: “Explain what cholesterol is and why raised
cholesterol is undesirable“, “Explain how often and how long the
medication should be used”, “Giving feedback about the effect of the
statin using laboratory findings”.For pharmacy teams this consisted of:
“Monitor and/or discuss possible interactions with other drugs”,
“Discuss the common side effects of the drug “, “Verbal explanation
about statins“ (table 2).
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