Key takeaways:
- Considerations about glaucoma had a unfavorable affect on remedy adherence.
- Sickness notion additionally had an affect on glaucoma-related high quality of life.
SALT LAKE CITY — Sufferers who had a worse notion of their glaucoma had worse remedy adherence and high quality of life, in accordance with a poster presentation on the Affiliation for Analysis in Imaginative and prescient and Ophthalmology assembly.
Lyne Racette, PhD, mentioned the aim of the examine was to look at how sufferers understand their illness and the way effectively they had been capable of take their remedy.
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“In glaucoma, they must put in eye drops day-after-day for the remainder of their lives,” she informed Healio. “Typically one, typically two, typically extra. Typically they get surgical procedure, however the first line of therapy is eye drops.”
Racette and colleagues chosen sufferers with major open-angle glaucoma from an NIH-funded longitudinal examine and measured sickness notion utilizing a nine-item questionnaire. In addition they measured remedy adherence utilizing remedy adherence software program in addition to high quality of life utilizing the Glaucoma High quality of Life-15 questionnaire.
Sufferers reported having low confidence in therapy, a restricted understanding of their illness and excessive considerations about their illness. As well as, sufferers’ concern about their glaucoma, the way it affected them emotionally and their complete sickness notion had been considerably related to remedy adherence, with ties discovered between a number of sickness perceptions and glaucoma-related high quality of life.
“How sufferers understand their sickness impacts how effectively they really feel, their high quality of life and likewise how they adhere to their therapy,” Racette mentioned. “Perhaps in clinics down the street, when you wished to double up interventions or assist sufferers adhere higher, it could be good to spend somewhat bit extra time explaining to sufferers what their illness is.”
Sources/Disclosures
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Racette L, et al. Relationship between sickness perceptions and medicine adherence in major open-angle glaucoma. Offered at: Affiliation for Analysis in Imaginative and prescient and Ophthalmology assembly; Could 4-8, 2025; Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah.
Disclosures:
Racette stories being a scientific advisor for Olleyes.
