Influencing factors and their relationships of risk perception and decision-making behaviour of polypharmacy in patients with chronic diseases: a qualitative descriptive study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

In order to understand the influencing factors of the medication-taking behaviour in patients with chronic diseases, reveal the deep-seated causes underlying the phenomenon of polypharmacy, explore the formation rules of the risk perception of polypharmacy and how risk perception affect the medication decision-making behaviour of patients with chronic diseases.

Design

A qualitative descriptive design was used. Study data were collected through semi-structured interviews with patients and physicians. We used the grounded theory approach to refine influencing factors, followed by interpretative structural modelling that analysed the interaction between these factors.

Setting

Patients from two hospitals, two nursing homes and two communities. Physicians from t

SUBMITTER: Liu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8088251 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature