مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - EVALUATION OF MEDICATION MANAGEMENT SAFETY IN PATIENTS USING ORAL ANTICOAGULANTS

Abstract :

Objective: This study is planned as a descriptive study in order to identify the safe medication for the individuals who are given oral anti-coagulator treatment.Methods: The population of this research involves the patients who take OAC under observation in the outpatient departments and cardiology policlinics, inpatients in cardiology and coronary intensive care of a university hospital between February 2011 - February 2012. The sample involves 145 patients having the criteria who had an informed consent after being explained the aim of the research. The data is collected by a questionnaire of questions on socio-demographic features, the treatment they take, and their knowledge, attitudes towards OAC The analysis of data is performed on the computer with SPSS 15 package.Results: As a result of this research, the mean age of the individuals is seen as 53.14±13.83 years. It is also found out that about 64.1% of the patients use 5 mg./day of OAC medication, about 40 % have had no training about the medication, about 75.9 % have experienced side effects of bleeding. The mean score of knowledge and attitude of the patients having OAC medication is 3.552.01(low) ve 7.422.03 (high). It is detected that there is a significant relationship between the mean score of knowledge and age, sex, education level, training and side effect experience (p 0.05). The mean score of attitude is detected to have a significant relationship only with having a medicine management training (p 0.05). Knowledge and attitude mean scores are found out to have a weak but positive significant relationship (p 0.05).Conclusions: It is determined that safe drug management of the patients who take oral anti-coagulator treatment is inadequate and that they require guidance, counselling and training on this subject.