Exploring behaviors, treatment beliefs, and barriers to oral chemotherapy adherence among adult leukemia patients in a rural outpatient setting
Author
Lea, C. Suzanne; Bohra, Sulochana; Moore, Tifanie; Passwater, Chelsea; Liles, Darla
Abstract
Objective:
Adherence to oral chemotherapy is essential for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and multiple myeloma (MM) to remain in remission. Few studies have used a Likert-type scale to measure medication adherence in CML and MM patients. We applied a validated treatment adherence tool, the ASK-12 (Adherence Starts with Knowledge®) survey, which assessed inconvenience and forgetfulness, treatment beliefs, and medication-taking behaviors recorded on a five-point Likert-type scale at two visits.
Results:
A medication adherence survey was administered to 42 newly diagnosed or pre-existing CML or MM patients at two outpatient oncology clinics affiliated with an academic medical center in rural eastern North Carolina. Thirty-one patients completed surveys at visit 1 and visit 2 (median 4.5 months apart). Most patients were treated for MM (65%), were non-Hispanic black (68%) and female (58%). Within subscales, mean adherence scores decreased between visits, signaling better adherence. Overall, visit scores were correlated (0.63, p = 0.001). Forgetting to take medication sometimes was the most common reason for non-adherence. Medication costs were not a barrier for MM patients. Greater patient–provider informed decision-making was identified as an opportunity for quality improvement among CML patients. The ASK-12 survey provided a strategy to obtain robust information on medication adherence.
Date
2018-11-29
Citation:
APA:
Lea, C. Suzanne, & Bohra, Sulochana, & Moore, Tifanie, & Passwater, Chelsea, & Liles, Darla. (November 2018).
Exploring behaviors, treatment beliefs, and barriers to oral chemotherapy adherence among adult leukemia patients in a rural outpatient setting.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10342/8519
MLA:
Lea, C. Suzanne, and Bohra, Sulochana, and Moore, Tifanie, and Passwater, Chelsea, and Liles, Darla.
"Exploring behaviors, treatment beliefs, and barriers to oral chemotherapy adherence among adult leukemia patients in a rural outpatient setting". .
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November 2018.
May 10, 2024.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/8519.
Chicago:
Lea, C. Suzanne and Bohra, Sulochana and Moore, Tifanie and Passwater, Chelsea and Liles, Darla,
"Exploring behaviors, treatment beliefs, and barriers to oral chemotherapy adherence among adult leukemia patients in a rural outpatient setting," , no.
(November 2018),
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/8519 (accessed
May 10, 2024).
AMA:
Lea, C. Suzanne, Bohra, Sulochana, Moore, Tifanie, Passwater, Chelsea, Liles, Darla.
Exploring behaviors, treatment beliefs, and barriers to oral chemotherapy adherence among adult leukemia patients in a rural outpatient setting. .
November 2018;
():
.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/8519. Accessed
May 10, 2024.
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