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KMID : 0363420100240030016
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Journal of Korean Oriental Pediatrics
2010 Volume.24 No. 3 p.16 ~ p.25
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Compliance of Herbal Medicine in Children and the Factors Associated with Compliance
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Lee Sun-Haeng
Chang Gyu-tae
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Abstract
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Objectives: Compliance of herbal medicine is extremely important in Korean oriental medicine, since herbal medicine is main approach to the most of outpatients in Korean pediatrics. The more compliant to the medication, the more effective care is given to children. Thus, we conducted this research to evaluate the compliance of herbal medicine, and factors associated with compliance in children.
Methods: 61 children (men 28, women 33) were participated who visited the Korean Oriental Medicine Department in university hospital for two weeks. We used Morisky’s self-reported questionnaire which is consisted of four questions. Also, we checked medical records and researched respondent to acquire more factors. We defined as a "full compliant" if answers were ’No’ to all of the questions. We analyzed the compliance and associated factors with Pearson’s -test and Fisher’s exact test, and Spearman correlation coefficient. Compliance and associated factors were analyzed with linear regression.
Results: Compliance of herbal medicine was not related to respondent, and 34 children (55.7%) were non-compliant. The best compliant type of herbal medicine was granule medication (p=0.046). However, there was no relationship between compliance and age, sex, sibling, purpose of medication, period of disease, frequency of medication, and medication duration. The age, frequency of medication, medication duration, and purpose of medications(period of disease) had correlation(p<0.01). Also, older children tended to forget to take herbal medicine(p=0.004).
Conclusions: Over an half of the total subjects (55.7%) were non-compliant, so we should improve compliance of herbal medicine. Since granule form of medication was shown to have the best compliance, we should try to use granule form of medication instead of liquid medications. Also, we can also improve compliance with giving attention to the patients, especially older children in order to improve their compliance.
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KEYWORD
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Compliance of Herbal Medicine, Children, Type of medication, Granule medication
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