Examining medication knowledge and behavior of older African-American adult day care clients.
The purposes of this descriptive pilot study were to: 1) examine medication knowledge and behavior of older African-American adult day care clients; and, 2) describe how community health nurses working in adult day care centers can improve medication regimen compliance by utilizing the Rice Model of Dynamic Self-Determination. Convenience sampling was used to recruit 40 older African-Americans attending adult day care at two urban geriatric centers. Findings from this study suggested that the older African-Americans sampled needed assistance from adult children or other caregivers to follow their medication regimen as evidenced by not being able to open a pill bottle, or not having a system to take medications, having trouble swallowing their pills, and obtaining prescribed medications from the drug store. Further findings from this study also suggested that among these older African-American subjects that there was an enormous knowledge deficit regarding side effects of medications and usefulness of medications. In addition, the Rice Model was applied to a case study to illustrate how community heath nurses can improve medication regimen compliance for adult day care clients.
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Department of Nursing, Cleveland State University, 1860 East 22nd Street, RT 924, Cleveland, Ohio 44114-4435, USA. ajennings@cshohio.edu
D001741:Black or African American; D000368:Aged; D003152:Community Health Nursing; D003631:Day Care, Medical; D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000451:nursing*; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010349:Patient Compliance / Q000208:ethnology*; D010865:Pilot Projects