Effect of social support and family function on treatment compliance in patients with cerebral infarction
ZHANG Wei-na
Abstract：Objective To explore the effect of social support and family function on treatment compliance of the patients with cerebral infarction. Methods Morisky Medication Adherence Scale 8 (MMAS-8) was used to evaluate medication compliance, support rating scale (SSRS) was used to evaluate the social support and APGAR family function scale was used to evaluate the family function in 116 patients with cerebral infarction treated in our hospital from January, 2013 to January, 2015. The social support and family function on treatment compliance of these patients with cerebral infarction were statistically analyzed. Results The average score of MMAS-8 was (7.1 ± 1.0) points in 116 patients with cerebral infarction. There was complete compliance in 56 (48.3％) patients, there was mediocre compliance in 32 (27.6％) patients and there was poor compliance in 28 (24.1％) patients. Multivariable linear regression analysis showed that family income, disease duration, subjective support, emotion, intimacy and cooperation were the important factors affecting the treatment compliance in the patients with cerebral infarction. Conclusions The treatment compliance is closely related with social support and family function in patients with cerebral infarction. The treatment compliance, the prognosis and life quality may be improved by nurse's good related intervention and increase in the family and social supports in the patients with cerebral infarction.
Keywords：Cerebral infarctionTreatment complianceSocial supportFamily function
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 722-723,726 )