The impact of trust and self-efficacy on medication adherence

• Autor(a) principal: Zaharciuc, Luminita
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/21533
• topic: Trust; Medication adherence; Patient-pharmacist relationship; Confiança; Auto-eficácia -- Self-efficacy; Adesão à medicação; Relação paciente-farmacêutico

Pharmacy practice has shifted from one that is product- oriented towards one that is more patient-oriented, leading to an increased interest in pharmacist-patient interaction. In this way, it became necessary to understand the relationship between trust, self- efficacy and adherence to medication in a long-term patient-pharmacist relationship by adopting a social perspective. Thus, this study aim to provide more understandings about how trust and self-efficacy influence patients’ medication adherence behavior. Moreover, an exploratory and qualitative research will be approached to understand pharmacists and people’s view/opinion about patient/ pharmacists trusting-relationship and how people’s behavior is influenced when a trusting patient/pharmacists relationship exists. In this sense, a population approach was carried out by distributing questionnaires with open questions and by some structured interviews. It has been concluded that, patients’ medication adherence behavior is affected by the trust they place in a pharmacist, in cases of non-prescribed drugs and in the event of any irregularity in prescribed ones. Plus, patients’ self-efficacy beliefs and outcome expectancy also influence their medication adherence behavior and patients’ self-efficacy beliefs and outcome expectancy are influenced by their trust in a pharmacist. Pharmacists still have a way to go before they fully influence patients' behaviors. Interventions designed to enhance patients’ sense of self-efficacy for medication adherence, as well as patients’ trust in pharmacists, may be effective to detect adherence barriers and to settle non- adherence’s issues.