Azami Mohammad, Pilevarzadeh Motahareh, Sharifi Neda
Medical Informatics Research Center, Institute of Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.
School of Nursing, Jiroft University of Medical Sciences, Jiroft, Iran.
Addict Health. 2020 Jan;12(1):1-10. doi: 10.22122/ahj.v12i1.261.
The low level of drug adherence in addicts who are quitting is one of the biggest challenges in the treatment and management of this disease. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the effect of information therapy on adherence to treatment among the patients in addiction treatment centers.
The present quasi-experimental study was performed on 60 patients referred to addiction treatment centers in Jiroft City, Iran. The control and experimental groups were selected using simple random sampling method. The 8-item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale was used for data collection. The level of adherence to treatment was assessed before and after the intervention, which consisted of 6 one-hour training sessions per week.
The adherence to medication was low in both experimental and control groups before the notification. However, the chi-square value obtained by comparing the frequencies of the experimental and control groups in three variables of adherence level (high, moderate, and low) was 9.84 which was statistically significant (P = 0.007). Therefore, there was a significant difference between the experimental and control groups after information therapy. In fact, the information in the experimental group had a significant and positive effect.
Because of the low level of adherence to treatment, it is recommended to use information therapy to give information on timely and correct use of drugs as well as its importance in the treatment of addiction; so that the level of adherence would improve.
戒毒成瘾者的药物依从性较低是该疾病治疗和管理中的最大挑战之一。因此，本研究旨在评估信息疗法对戒毒治疗中心患者治疗依从性的影响。
本准实验研究对伊朗吉罗夫特市戒毒治疗中心的60名患者进行。采用简单随机抽样法选取对照组和实验组。使用8项Morisky药物依从性量表收集数据。在干预前后评估治疗依从性水平，干预包括每周6次每次1小时的培训课程。
在进行告知前，实验组和对照组的药物依从性均较低。然而，通过比较实验组和对照组在依从性水平（高、中、低）三个变量上的频率得出的卡方值为9.84，具有统计学意义（P = 0.007）。因此，信息疗法后实验组和对照组之间存在显著差异。事实上，实验组的信息产生了显著的积极影响。
由于治疗依从性水平较低，建议采用信息疗法来提供关于药物及时正确使用及其在戒毒治疗中的重要性的信息；以便提高依从性水平。
