Table 5 Practices, experiences and perceptions of the healthcare workers (n=152)
n (%) | |
|---|---|
Contents of medication instructions | |
Number of doses per day | 130 (85.5) |
Number of days of the regimen | 113 (74.3) |
Side effects of the medicine | 113 (74.3) |
Importance of continuing to take medicines | 110 (72.4) |
Effect of medicine | 64 (42.1) |
Number of tablets per dose | 60 (39.5) |
Frequency of confirming whether the patient understood how to take the medicines | |
Never | 8 (5.3) |
Occasionally | 41 (27.0) |
Often | 51 (33.6) |
Always | 51 (33.6) |
Missing | 1 (0.7) |
Frequency of seeing malaria outpatients with poor adherence to medication instructions | |
Never | 26 (17.1) |
Occasionally | 113 (74.3) |
Often | 9 (5.9) |
Always | 3 (2.0) |
Missing | 1 (0.7) |
Having heard of patients who did not correctly complete the 3-day regimen of AL | 64 (42.1) |
Perceived reasons that patients did not complete the regimen (multiple answers allowed) n=64 | |
Illiterate | 27 (42.2) |
Long distance between patient’s home and healthcare facility | 24 (37.5) |
Poor understanding of instructions | 20 (31.3) |
Low income | 12 (18.8) |
Mild symptoms | 3 (4.7) |
Not having health insurance | 3 (4.7) |
Fear of side effects | 3 (4.7) |
Others | 7 (10.9) |
Perceived effect of poor AL adherence on the emergence of drug-resistant malaria | |
Poor adherence can cause drug-resistant malaria | 135 (88.8) |
Poor adherence cannot cause drug-resistant malaria | 16 (10.5) |
Missing | 1 (0.7) |
Perceived responsible person to manage medication adherence (multiple answers allowed) | |
Healthcare workers who prescribed medicine | 106 (69.7) |
Healthcare workers who hand over medicines to patients | 95 (62.5) |
Caregivers | 69 (45.4) |
Patients | 29 (19.1) |
Others | 6 (3.9) |