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Patient adherence to prescribed artemisinin-based combination therapy in Garissa County, Kenya, after three years of health care in a conflict setting

Overview of attention for article published in Malaria Journal, March 2015
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Title
Patient adherence to prescribed artemisinin-based combination therapy in Garissa County, Kenya, after three years of health care in a conflict setting
Published in
Malaria Journal, March 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12936-015-0645-z
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Georgia R Gore-Langton, Nfornuh Alenwi, James Mungai, Nahashon I Erupe, Katie Eves, Francis Njoroge Kimwana, David Soti, Willis Akhwale, Farah A Hassan, Elizabeth Juma, Richard Allan

Abstract

Current day malaria cases and deaths are indicative of a lack of access to both methods of prevention, diagnosis and treatment; an important determinant of treatment efficacy is adherence. This study is a follow up to the baseline study of adherence to artemether-lumefantrine (AL) carried out in Garissa District in 2010. The study presented evaluates any changes in adherence levels which may have occurred in the area during this period and after nearly three years of sustained use of ACT across the public health sector. The study was carried out in Garissa County in the North Eastern Province of Kenya and included patients fitting the suspected malaria case definition and having been prescribed AL, regardless of confirmatory diagnosis. A questionnaire assessed the intake of AL via both self-reporting by the participant and observation of blister packs by the interviewer. On separate occasions exit interviews with patients and observations of prescribers were also carried out. Of the 218 participants enrolled, 195 were successfully followed up. 60% of participants were found to be adherent to the three-day AL regimen, this is 4.7% lower than the proportion of participants adherent in 2010; the result of a two-sided z-test was not significant (p = 0.23). The odds of the patient being adherent to AL increased by 65% with each additional correct statement regarding how to take AL that a patient could recall (between zero and four statements), this was the only variable significantly associated with patient adherence (p = 0.01). Sustaining the ACT adherence rates at the 2010 levels, through 2.5 years of insecurity in the study area is an achievement and suggests that if security can be improved barriers to improving health service quality and patient adherence to AL would be removed. This study, by looking specifically at anti-malarial adherence over a prolonged period and in a setting of severe conflict, provides a valuable and rare insight in to the challenges and barriers to ACT adherence in such settings.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 2%
Unknown 62 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 12 19%
Researcher 11 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 11%
Student > Bachelor 6 10%
Librarian 4 6%
Other 11 17%
Unknown 12 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 20 32%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 11%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 6 10%
Social Sciences 3 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 3%
Other 8 13%
Unknown 17 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 December 2015.
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#4,181,246
of 22,835,198 outputs
Outputs from Malaria Journal
#1,056
of 5,572 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#52,996
of 263,307 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Malaria Journal
#22
of 116 outputs
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