Maximizing patient compliance by shaping attitudes of self-directed health care.
Research studies consistently find that a large proportion of patients do not comply with physicians' recommendations. Consequences of such high noncompliance on the efficiency and effectiveness of health-care delivery systems are dramatic and obvious. Recognition of this problem was the impetus for beginning this patient compliance study. Key factors involved in maximizing patient compliance were identified and incorporated into a procedure which patients in the experimental group experienced. Patients in the control group experienced. Patients in the control group experienced no special treatment. Compliance rates were higher for the experimental group; however, compliance rates in both control and experimental groups tended to be higher than cited in the literature. It was founded that patients in the experimental group seemed to react more favorably to the personal interaction they received as part of the procedure than to other facets of the procedure. Findings of the study imply that increased compliance may be the end result if greater emphasis is placed on building a partnership with the patient rather than making compliance itself a major goal.
D001294:Attitude to Health; D006801:Humans; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations