Misunderstanding Prescription Physician’s Oral Instructions in Patients with Low Back Pain
Medication errors and adverse drug events can bring about hospitalization, permanent injury, or death. Patients due to lack of adequate understanding of instruction may unintentionally misuse a prescribed medicine. The aims of the study were to examine whether patients with low back pain were correc...
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doaj-fdd18527e6b94020bbefc4cb65381a332020-11-25T02:50:04ZengTehran University of Medical SciencesActa Medica Iranica0044-60251735-96942010-12-014864070Misunderstanding Prescription Physician’s Oral Instructions in Patients with Low Back PainAlireza Khoshnevisan0Mir Saeed Yekaninejad1Amir Haji Agha Pakpour2Azam Mardani3Department of Neurosurgery, BASIR Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.Department of Public Health, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran.BASIR Center, Imam Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.Medication errors and adverse drug events can bring about hospitalization, permanent injury, or death. Patients due to lack of adequate understanding of instruction may unintentionally misuse a prescribed medicine. The aims of the study were to examine whether patients with low back pain were correctly able to understand physician's instructions regarding drug use and also to identify influencing factors in patient's misunderstanding. The sample of the study included patients with low back pain who had been referred to five clinics in order to follow their treatment procedure. The patients completed a questionnaire to assess understanding of physician's instructions by the patients. Afterwards, physician provided them oral instructions on how they must use medications. Once the physician finished the oral instruction, he was asked patients to repeat whatever he said about the instructions. This procedure repeated frequently until the patients described correctly Instructions of the medications use. One hundred and five patients participated in the study. The mean age of the participants was 57.5 (± 13.9) years. Thirty three patients were female (31.4%) and 75.2 percent were married. Almost 80% of the patients misunderstood the oral prescription instructions at first time of presentation instruction. Gender, educational level, back pain history and drug use history were risk factors for misunderstanding prescription medication oral instructions for patients. The study affirmed that patients with low back pain suffered from a poor understanding of oral instruction. https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/4074Low back painhealth literacyprescription drugssafety |
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Alireza Khoshnevisan Mir Saeed Yekaninejad Amir Haji Agha Pakpour Azam Mardani |
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Misunderstanding Prescription Physician’s Oral Instructions in Patients with Low Back Pain |
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Misunderstanding Prescription Physician’s Oral Instructions in Patients with Low Back Pain |
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences |
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Acta Medica Iranica |
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0044-6025 1735-9694 |
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Medication errors and adverse drug events can bring about hospitalization, permanent injury, or death. Patients due to lack of adequate understanding of instruction may unintentionally misuse a prescribed medicine. The aims of the study were to examine whether patients with low back pain were correctly able to understand physician's instructions regarding drug use and also to identify influencing factors in patient's misunderstanding. The sample of the study included patients with low back pain who had been referred to five clinics in order to follow their treatment procedure. The patients completed a questionnaire to assess understanding of physician's instructions by the patients. Afterwards, physician provided them oral instructions on how they must use medications. Once the physician finished the oral instruction, he was asked patients to repeat whatever he said about the instructions. This procedure repeated frequently until the patients described correctly Instructions of the medications use. One hundred and five patients participated in the study. The mean age of the participants was 57.5 (± 13.9) years. Thirty three patients were female (31.4%) and 75.2 percent were married. Almost 80% of the patients misunderstood the oral prescription instructions at first time of presentation instruction. Gender, educational level, back pain history and drug use history were risk factors for misunderstanding prescription medication oral instructions for patients. The study affirmed that patients with low back pain suffered from a poor understanding of oral instruction.
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