Centre for Quality
Management of Medicines

Medication Adherence

CURRENT ACTIVE PROJECTS:

A/ Prof Mohd Makmor Bakry

Development of Medication Risk Assessment Tools (MRAT)

Treatment failure can be due to various issues such as medication non-adherence behaviour, drug interactions, drug-disease mismatched and adverse drug reactions. Tools to identify these pharmaceutical issues (PCI) are imperative in early prevention of treatment failure. Series of studies are conducted to identify factors that influence the occurrence of PCI and the identified factors are used to develop the MRAT. Current research projects include the development of MRAT for various conditions such as cardiovascular diseases, HIV infection, antimicrobial resistance and epilepsy.

Dr Adliah Mhd Ali

Exploration of cultural, religiosity and spirituality related factors to improve medication adherence

Adherence behaviour could be predicted based on various factors. Consideration of sociodemographic background of the study population is important, as issues underlying the non-adherence behaviour could be unique to their cultural and religious or spiritual belief. Therefore, the current study explores the cultural, religiosity and spirituality related factors in improving chronic disease patients medication adherence.

A/ Prof Ernieda Md Hatah

Behavioural changes related to medication adherence

Patient adherence to medication is a constant source of concern, as it obscures treatment efficacy and results in medicine waste, diminished therapeutic benefit, and increased mortality. It is a complicated process that involves explicit instruction, communication, and behavioural changes in order to maintain daily medicine use. Our research in UKM includes exploring possible factors that may have influenced patient’s non-adherence to medicines especially among those who received subsidized medications. Our research helps to explore local factors that may have influenced medication non-adherence from multiple perspectives of patients and health care systems such as religiosity, motivation, perceived values of medicines, patient-doctor communication and others. The findings had led to the development of Malaysia Medication Adherence Assessment Tool (MyMAAT) to guide clinicians in identifying medication non-adherence among diabetic patients.

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