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Medication Adherence and Its Associated Factors Among Outpatients with Heart Failure
Authors Jarab AS , Al-Qerem WA , Hamam HW , Alzoubi KH, Abu Heshmeh SR , Mukattash TL , Alefishat E
Received 28 February 2023
Accepted for publication 28 April 2023
Published 8 May 2023 Volume 2023:17 Pages 1209—1220
DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/PPA.S410371
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Editor who approved publication: Dr Johnny Chen
Anan S Jarab,1,2 Walid A Al-Qerem,3 Hanan Walid Hamam,1 Karem H Alzoubi,4,5 Shrouq R Abu Heshmeh,1 Tareq L Mukattash,1 Eman Alefishat6– 8
1Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, 22110, Jordan; 2College of Pharmacy, Al Ain University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; 3Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan, Amman, 11733, Jordan; 4Department of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmacotherapeutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; 5Faculty of Pharmacy, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan; 6Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine and Health Science, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, 127788, United Arab Emirates; 7Department Biopharmaceutics and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Jordan, Amman, 11942, Jordan; 8Center for Biotechnology, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, 127788, United Arab Emirates
Correspondence: Eman Alefishat, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine and Health Science, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, 127788, United Arab Emirates, Tel +971 5 07293877, Email [email protected]
Background: Poor adherence to heart failure (HF) medications represents a major barrier to achieve the desired health outcomes in those patients.
Objective: To assess medication adherence and to explore the factors associated with medication non-adherence among patient with HF in Jordan.
Methods: The current cross-sectional study was conducted at the outpatient cardiology clinics at two main hospitals in Jordan from August 2021 through April 2022. Variables including socio-demographics, biomedical variables, in addition to disease and medication characteristics were collected using medical records and custom-designed questionnaire. Medication adherence was assessed using the 4-item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale. Multinomial logistic regression analysis was performed to identify the factors that are significantly and independently associated with medication non-adherence.
Results: Of the 427 participating patients, 92.5% had low to moderate medication adherence. Results of the regression analysis revealed that that patients who had higher education level (OR=3.36; 95% CI 1.08– 10.43; P=0.04) and were not suffering from medication-related side effects (OR=4.7; 95% CI 1.91– 11.5; P=0.001) had significantly higher odds of being in the moderate adherence group. Patients who were taking statins (OR=16.59; 95% CI 1.79– 153.98; P=0.01) or ACEIs/ ARBs (OR=3.95; 95% CI 1.01– 15.41; P=0.04) had significantly higher odds of being in the high adherence group. Furthermore, Patients who were not taking anticoagulants had higher odds of being in the moderate (OR=2.77; 95% CI 1.2– 6.46; P=0.02) and high (OR=4.11; 95% CI 1.27– 13.36; P=0.02) adherence groups when compared to patients who were taking anticoagulants.
Conclusion: The poor medication adherence in the present study sheds the light on the importance of implementing intervention programs which focus on improving patients’ perception about the prescribed medications particularly for patients who have low educational levels, receive an anticoagulant, and do not receive a statin or an ACEI/ ARB.
Keywords: heart failure, medication adherence, medication necessity, medication concerns, intervention, Jordan
Introduction
Heart Failure (HF) is a serious clinical condition that results from cardiac abnormalities which leads to significant reduction in cardiac function.1 In 2017, 64 million people were suffering from HF worldwide.2 American statistics predicted that between 2012 and 2030, the prevalence of HF would increase by 46%. 3 Furthermore, in 2018, HF was found as the underlying cause of 379,800 deaths.4 In Jordan, recent statistics reported that nearly 37% of overall deaths in the country were attributed to non-communicable diseases and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), including HF.5 HF has a significant burden on the community. The anticipated cost of HF in 2012 was over 30 billion US dollars, and it is predicted that by 2030, that cost will have risen by almost 127%.3
Despite the significant improvement in HF management and prognosis, mortality and hospitalization rates remain high,6,7 which could be attributed to the inadequate medication adherence.8 The World Health Organization (WHO) defined medication adherence as the extent to which an individual’s behaviour corresponds to a healthcare provider’s recommendations.9 According to the 2016 American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Guideline recommendations, medical management of patients with HF has become increasingly complex,10 which is one of the major barriers to medication adherence.11
The medication adherence rates among HF patients are poor. It has been reported that at least one out of four patients with HF are non-adherent,12–14 which could lead to poor prognosis manifested by worsening symptoms, frequent hospitalizations, and eventually death.15 Inconsistent findings have been reported with regard to the factors associated with medication non-adherence among HF patients. A study conducted in the United States reported that the most common factors associated with medication non-adherence were forgetfulness, polypharmacy, and being symptom-free.16 In addition to forgetfulness, a study reported that age, gender, disease characteristics, type of disease, number of medications, frequency of visits to healthcare professionals, and satisfaction with treatment were associated with medication non-adherence.17 A study conducted in Australia revealed that complex medication instructions, disruption in medication supply, and adverse drug reactions were the main reasons behind medication non-adherence among HF patients.18 The diversity of the factors that are associated with medication non-adherence, especially among HF patients, necessitates conducting further studies to reveal the true predictors of medication non-adherence among HF patients. In Jordan, medication adherence among HF has not yet been explored. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate medication adherence and to explore the factors associated with medication non-adherence among patients with HF in Jordan.
Material and Methods
Study Design and Settings
This cross-sectional study was conducted on patients with HF attending the outpatient cardiology clinics at King Abdullah University Hospital and Al Bashir Hospital in Jordan in the period from August 2021 through April 2022. During the study period, patients who were 18 years or older, had a confirmed diagnosis of HF for at least six months, had a cardiologist’s assignment of New York Heart Association (NYHA) classification, were taking at least one HF medication and agreed to sign a consent form were included in the study. Patients with acute decompensation of HF or an active listing for heart transplantation and patients with cognitive impairment were excluded from the study. Patients who were eligible to participate were informed that participation is voluntary, they have the right to withdraw at any time, their medical care and treatment will not be affected by their participation, and the collected data will only be used for research purposes. The interview took approximately 10–15 minutes to be completed.
Study Instruments
During the outpatient clinic visit, the research pharmacist HH used a custom-designed questionnaire and the medical records to collect information about socio-demographic, disease, and medication related variables. The researcher also collected biomedical data including low-density lipoproteins (LDL), high-density lipoproteins (HDL), triglycerides (TGs), total cholesterol, glycosylated haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), random blood glucose, systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), ejection fraction (EF%), serum creatinine, white blood cells (WBCs), red blood cells (RBCs), and haemoglobin (Hb). The validated Arabic version of the 4-item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale was used to evaluate patients’ willingness to take the medications as prescribed.19,20 The four items were: Do you forget to take your medications? Are you careless about the time of taking your medications? Do you stop taking your medications when you feel better? Do you stop taking your medications when you feel worse? According to their responses, patients were divided into three groups: patients who reported three or more “yes” responses were considered to have low adherence, those who reported one or two “yes” responses were deemed to have moderate adherence, while those who reported four “no” answers were considered to have high adherence.
Sample Size Calculation
Sample size calculation was conducted to ensure enrolling sufficient patients to produce a model with appropriate statistical power to detect any significant impact. The 50 + 8P equation was used to compute the minimum sample size required to conduct multinomial regression, where P represents the number of predictors. The original aim of the study was to evaluate the association of the forty-seven variables with the medication adherence level. Therefore, the minimum required sample size was 282 patients.21
Data Analysis
The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26 from IBM was used to run descriptive and analytical statistics. Descriptive analysis was used to describe continuous variables in terms of the mean (standard deviations) and the categorical variables in terms of frequencies (percentages). Participants’ differences with regard to medication adherence were tested using ANOVA and Kruskal–Wallis tests for normally and non-normally distributed continuous variables, respectively. Pearson Chi-square test was conducted to explore the association between the categorical variables and medication adherence among the study participants. Variables with a p-value <0.1 at the univariate analysis were included in the multinomial logistic regression to explore significant and independent predictors of medication adherence.
Results
Out of 550 patients with HF, a total of 427 patients agreed to participate in the study. The total participants’ mean age was 63 (SD =12) years. The majority of the participants were males (63.8%), married (94.4%), living with their families (94.6%), living in the city (66.8%), did not complete their education (69.4%), unemployed or retired (77.6%), had low monthly income (67.1%), non-smokers (69.9%), and were physically inactive (88.1%). Most of the patients showed moderate adherence to HF medications (83.6%), followed by high (8.9%) and low adherence (7.5%). The participants were stratified based on the adherence level and the results indicated that 31.3% of the high adherence group had college/university degree while only 13.2% of the low adherence group had college/university degree (P <0.1). Furthermore, 50% of the high adherence group were residing in the city, whereas 73.7% of the low adherence group and 67.6% of the moderate adherence group were residents of the city (P <0.1). Other demographic characteristics of the participants are presented in Table 1.
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Table 1 Demographic Characteristics of the Participants |
As a total, the patients had a mean HF duration of 6.4 (SD = 6.16) years. Most of the patients were classified as group III/IV according to NYHA classification (69.6%), with an average EF% of 42 (SD =10), indicating that the heart on average pumps 42% of the total volume of blood in each beat, and 170 patients (39.7%) had an EF of less than 40%, ie, the heart pumps less than 40% of the total volume of blood in each beat. The mean number of comorbid diseases was 3 (SD =1), and the most common comorbidities were hypertension (77.1%), type 2 diabetes (61.2%), and ischemic heart disease (IHD) (64.3%). The patients were taking 8 (SD =3) medications on average, and the mean number of HF medications was 3 (SD =1). The most prescribed HF medications were beta blockers (88.6%), loop diuretics (67.5%), and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs)/ angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARBs) (66.8%). The majority of the patients were satisfied with their medications (77.3%), had no fears about the side effects of the medications (71.3%), and did not experience side effects (68%). The mean of BP readings was 129 (SD =22) mm HG for SBP and 76 (SD =22) mm HG for DBP. According to adherence levels, 46.9% of the high adherence group were classified I/II according to NYHA, while 21.1% of the moderate adherence patients and 29.9% of the low adherence patients had the same classification (P <0.1). The prevalence of diabetes among the low (71.1%) and moderate (61.7%) adherence groups was higher than that in the high adherence group (43.8%; P <0.1). The percentages of patients who were not having chronic kidney disease was 78.9%, 86.9%, and 96.9% in the low, moderate, and high adherence groups respectively (P <0.1).
Among the patients with high adherence level, 40.6% experienced side effects, while higher percentage was reported in in the low adherence group (60.5% (P <0.1). Similarly, 34.4% of the patients in the high adherence group experienced fears of side effects compared to 55.3% in the low adherence group (P <0.1). Results showed that 52.6% of the patients who reported low medication adherence were taking ACEIs/ARBs, while higher percentages were reported among the patients in the moderate and high adherence groups (67.3% and 78.1% respectively, P<0.1). Moreover, 93.8% of the high adherence group were on statins compared to 63.2% in the low adherence group (P <0.1). On the hand, 31.3% of the high adherence patients were taking anticoagulants, while higher percentage (52.6%) were prescribed anticoagulant in the low adherence group (P <0.1). Other disease and medication characteristics of the study participants are presented in Table 2. As shown in Table 3, the results indicated that mean values for total cholesterol were 4.74 (SD =1.96) in the high adherence group versus 4.6 (SD =1.27) in the low adherence group (P <0.1). Results also showed that mean LDL was 2.97 (SD =1.78) in the high adherence groupversus 2.39 (SD =1.04) in the moderate adherence group (P <0.1).
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Table 2 Disease and Medication Characteristics of the Study Participants |
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Table 3 Biomedical Variables of the Participants |
Results of the regression analysis (Table 4) showed that patients with higher education level had significantly higher odds of being in the moderate adherence group when compared to patients with lower education level (OR=3.36; 95% CI 1.08–10.43; P=0.04). Furthermore, patients who were not suffering from medication-related side effects had higher odds of being in the moderate adherence group when compared to patients who experienced side effects (OR=4.7; 95% CI 1.91–11.5; P=0.001). Patients who were taking statins (OR=16.59; 95% CI 1.79–153.98; P=0.01) or ACEIs/ ARBs (OR=3.95; 95% CI 1.01–15.41; P=0.04) had significantly higher odds of being in the high adherence group. Patients who were not taking anticoagulants had higher odds of being in the moderate adherence group (OR=2.77; 95% CI 1.2–6.46; P=0.02) and high (OR=4.11; 95% CI 1.27–13.36; P=0.02) when compared to patients who were taking anticoagulants.
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Table 4 Variables Associated with Medication Non-Adherence* |
Discussion
Evaluation of medication non-adherence and its associated factors is an important preliminary step for the development of future intervention programs which aim at improving medication adherence and health outcomes in HF patients. More than 90% of the present study participants reported low and moderate medication adherence, while only 7.5% reported high adherence, posing a real threat to health outcomes in patients with HF in Jordan. Consistent findings were reported in previous studies conducted in the Arab world and Western countries among patients with CVDs, including HF.22–26 A study conducted on elderly patients with HF who were treated with digoxin found that 90% of the participants were non-adherent to digoxin during one year follow-up period.27 Another study conducted in Tanzania reported that 75% of the participants were found to be non-adherent.28 A study conducted in Thailand revealed that 62% of the participating HF patients were classified as non-adherent.29 On the other hand, an American study reported that only 4% of the patients with HF were found to be non-adherent, 30 and another American study reported a 7% non-adherence rate among patients with HF.31 A systematic review reported that rates of medication adherence among patients with HF varied widely from 10% to 99%.32 The research population’s diversity and the variety of methodologies utilized to measure medication adherence may be the reason behind this notable difference in adherence rates.
Consistent with this study results, a study conducted on African Americans revealed that lower educational attainment was an independent predictor of medication non-adherence among patients with hypertension.33 Another study reported that educational level significantly affected medication adherence in African Americans with hypertension, where lower education was associated with lower adherence in the participating women.34 A previous Jordanian study reported that higher education levels positively affected medication adherence among patients with different chronic diseases.35
The current study found a significant association between experiencing medications’ side effects and medication non-adherence. Consistent with the current study findings, a previous survey showed that medication side effect was one of the most common reasons for medication non-adherence.36
The current study results showed that patients who were not taking statins had significantly lower medication adherence than their counterparts. Consistent with this finding, earlier studies showed that the majority of the patients who were receiving statins had good adherence, especially during the first month of therapy.37–40 Furthermore, it was established that in-hospital prescription of statins was associated with increased adherence rates.41 On the other hand, a previously published study demonstrated low levels of medication adherence among patients who were receiving statins.42 Statins are recommended as first-line lipid-lowering and vascular protective agents for the primary and secondary prevention of atherosclerotic CVDs.43 Therefore, Patients who are prescribed statins usually have a risk of developing CVDs or have an established CVD, and non-adherence to these agents has been associated with negative clinical consequences and cardiovascular events,44,45 which could increase the sense of medication necessity to avoid any potential cardiovascular events.
This study revealed that patients who were taking ACEIs or ARBs had significantly higher medication adherence than their counterparts. Consistent results were found in previous studies.46,47 A possible justification for this association could be related to the numerous benefits these medications possess on cardiac function, symptoms, and patient’ outcomes, as well as their tolerability and fewer side effects when compared to other medications.48 Patients who witnessed these beneficial effects while using ACEIs or ARBs would be more motivated to stick to the therapeutic regimen which made life with HF easier.
A negative association between taking anticoagulants and medication adherence was reported in the present study. Similarly, a study showed that receiving anticoagulants was associated with medication non-adherence in patients with different chronic conditions.49,50 On the other hand, an earlier study reported that taking warfarin for 3–5 years positively affected medication adherence in patients with mechanical heart valves.51 Other studies showed that medication adherence was significantly higher among patients with HF and atrial fibrillation (AF) who were prescribed warfarin therapy at discharge than those who were not.52–54 The negative impact of taking an anticoagulant on medication adherence in the current study could be justified by the patient’s concerns about its side effects, such as the risk of falls and haemorrhagic complications.55
In contrast with earlier research findings, 56–60 polypharmacy manifested by receiving an average of eight medications was not associated with medication non-adherence in the present study. However, polypharmacy was not associated with medication non-adherence in other studies.61,62 The lack of association may be justified by that polypharmacy is often assessed along with multiple other covariates to determine their association with medication adherence, making it difficult to determine the true association between polypharmacy and medication non-adherence. It’s unanimous that selecting the least possible number of prescribed medications seems to be more convenient and limit the chance to develop side effects from the prescribed medications.
Given the sparse information on the factors associated with medication adherence in patients with HF, the present study findings help narrowing down such factors and should provide insight for the development of future interventions which aim at enhancing medication adherence among patients with HF. Healthcare providers should give priority for prescribing ACEIs/ARBs for patients with HF unless contraindicated. They also should select medications with fewer side effects, provide the patients with information about the potential side effects and an advice on coping with them, with a focus on patients with low education level in order to help enhancing medication adherence and hence health outcomes among HF patients.
The current study has some limitations. The social desirability and recall bias associated with the use of a self-report method to assess medication non-adherence could have affected the results. The study was conducted in only two hospital sites, which might limit the generalizability of the study findings. The convenient sampling technique used in this study might cause selection bias. Moreover, the cross-sectional study design cannot confirm the cause-effect relationship, the protopathic bias cannot be excluded and the longitudinal outcomes cannot be measured. Furthermore, although the present study evaluated more than forty variables that may influence medication adherence, other confounding variables, such as the psychological status, which might influence adherence, was not evaluated in the present study.
Conclusions
Based on the study findings, it is clear that medication adherence represents an area for improvement among patients with HF. The current research should provide insight on the factors that should be specifically targeted by the healthcare providers in order to improve medication adherence. Future interventions and HF management programs should prioritize ACEIs/ARBs over the other HF medications, in addition to providing counselling on the potential side effects of the prescribed medications and how to cope with them, particularly for patients with low education level. Further research to evaluate the impact of targeting the factors identified in the present study on adherence level is deemed necessary.
Data Sharing Statement
The data generated and/or analysed during the present study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Ethics Approval and Informed Consent
Ethical approval was obtained from the Institutional Review Board of KAUH at Jordan University of Science and Technology (Ref. # 32/141/2021). An informed consent form was obtained from each patient agreed to participate in the study. The study has been carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (1975) for experiments involving human subjects.
Author Contributions
All authors made a significant contribution with regard to work conception, study design, acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of the data, drafting, revising, or critically reviewing the article. All authors also gave final approval of the version to be published and have agreed on the journal to which the article has been submitted and to be accountable for all aspects of the work.
Funding
This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
Disclosure
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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