Effectiveness of an Awareness Programme on Drug Compliance among People with Selected Chronic Diseases
The compliance to drug treatment leads to the prevention of deaths from the disease. Nurses play a very important role in the adherence to treatment by patients. The study aims at exploring the level of drug compliance among people with chronic illness (hypertension and diabetes mellitus), factors that influence the decision of the person and evaluates an awareness programme on the identified issues. The study used a Survey and Evaluative Approach with survey and quasiexperimental design. Purposive sampling was used to collect data from Marne, Athrady, Herebettu which are rural areas and Malpe area of Manipal which is an urban area. Among 23535 population surveyed a total of 1286 (602 urban and 684 rural) samples with the disease and undergoing treatment were identified. 328(184 urban and 144 rural) people who were not complying to drugs were given awareness programme. The tools used were Demographic performa, Morisky scale, Srivastava Socioeconomic scale, scale for Health status (SF-36) and a scale to assess factors. The study was based on the Rosentoch’s, Becker and Maiman’s Health Belief model.
