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Compliance to Your Medicines

Compliance to your medicines is defined as following the instructions and advice on medicines made by your team of health care professionals.

Definition

Compliance to your medicines is defined as following the instructions and advice on medicines made by your team of health care professionals.
The Importance includes:

  • To get well and stay well.
  • To take control of your own health & well being.
  • To reduce the incidence of complications due to incorrect way of taking medicines.
  • To prevent increase cost in due to additional Doctors/ Pharmacist consultation or hospital stay.

Reasons for not complying with your medicines

  • Forgetting to take the medicines..
  • Not understanding and or misinterpreting the instructions.
  • Prescription not collected or not dispensed.
  • Purpose of treatment is not clear.
  • Complicated regimen.
  • Instructions for administration not clear..
  • Experiencing side effects.
  • Not believing that the medicines can help.
  • Mistakenly believing that the disorder has been sufficiently treated. (eg : thinking an infection is over just because the fever disappears)
  • Fearing adverse consequences from or dependence on the medicines.
  • Cost of medicines
  • Not caring about getting better.
  • Encountering obstacles. (eg : having difficulty swallowing tablets or capsules, having problems opening bottles, considering treatment inconvenient, and being unable to obtain the medicines)

Tips to Increase Compliance

  • Take medicines at the same time everyday.
  • Take medicines in conjunction with meal or other daily events, eg; brushing your teeth.
  • Use special medicines taking aids to help you keep track of the schedule to take the medicines, eg; pill boxes, medicines taking chart is schedule to mark when you have taken the medications.

Talk to your pharmacist to help you to prepare your medicines taking; (see Illustration 1: For example of schedule medicines taking schedule table).

Medication name

Form/Colour/ Shape/ sample

Reason for use

Time to be taken

Notes(Side effects/ special instructions)

 

Illustration 1: Schedule Table

 

  • Use special medicines devices. eg; pill cutter or pill crusher to help you to cut or crush required medicines if necessary.
  • Use stickers/reminders on medicines cabinet/box/container or on refrigerator as reminder to take the medicines.

 

  • Ask people close to you to help remind you to take the medicines.
  • Learn about your medicines; why it is given to you, how it works, etc, from your pharmacist.
  • Do not change the way you take the medicines without informing your Doctor/Pharmacist.


7 day pill box


Electronic pill box alarm


Pill box with timer

 

Last Reviewed : 23 April 2014
Writer : Rosidah bt. Din
    Siti Nurul Fathihah bt. Baharudin
    Hazlin bt. Othman
Accreditor : Dr. Nour Hanah bt. Othman
Reviewer : Nor Aida bt. Sanusi

 

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