Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Medicines Adherence: Supporting Patients with Their Treatment
King's College London
This online course explored the nature and challenges of medicines non-adherence, factors that may influence patient medicines use and approaches that can be used to effectively engage patients in patient-centred consultations about self-managing medicines.
2 weeks, 2 hours per week
Professor John Weinman
King's College London
Professor Graham Davies
King's College London
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe the definition, nature and instance of medicines non-adherence, and its potential impact on health, wellbeing and health services globally.
- Identify a range of factors that have been found to be strong predictors of non-adherence, including patient illness and treatment beliefs.
- Identify how consultation behaviours that effectively identify and address non-adherence can be used to empower and better support patients who are having difficulty taking their medicines as prescribed.
- Explore how an evidence-based consultation framework, the Medication-Related Consultation Framework, can be incorporated into day-to-day practice to better support patients to self-manage their medicines.
- Explain how consultation behaviours that effectively identify and address non-adherence can be used to empower and better support patients who are having difficulty taking their medicines as prescribed.
- Reflect upon personal experiences of medicines-related consultations and the ways that people use their medicines.
Syllabus
- The nature of medicines non-adherence, its prevalence and its potential impact on personal health, healthcare systems and society.
- Evidence-based predictors of non-adherence, including physical barriers, illness and treatment beliefs, to better understand patients’ medicines-taking behaviour.
- The Medication-related Consultation Framework (MRCF) as a structured, patient-centred approach to help healthcare professionals evaluate and develop their skills when consulting with patients about medication issues.
- Patient-centred consultation behaviours to be effectively use in conjunction with the MRCF, including active listening and the use of open and close questions and affirmations.
- Simulated patient-practitioner consultations to illustrate the concepts, tools and techniques covered in this course.
Issued on 26th February 2017
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