| Assignment 6 Conduct a literature search on the topic “patient compliance” (patient adherence). Write a one page summary of the factors that contribute to poor patient compliance and develop several strategies that you believe will improve medication compliance by patients. How would set out to study the benefits of a new educational intervention on improving medication taking for depression patients? What type of study design? Outcome measures? use references!! Assignment 7: Measuring Health Related Productivity You are designing a study to evaluate the productivity losses associated with seasonal allergic rhinitis. The study population will be adult patients from a family medicine clinic. The sample will be a mixture of full and part time employees from various industries, students, homemakers and retirees. The survey instrument will be administered at clinic visits. Please research and review the following productivity measurements instruments: Work Limitations Questionnaire (WLQ) WHO Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ) Work Productivity and Activity Impairment Questionnaire (WPAI)-Allergy Specific version Discuss the merits and pitfalls of each instrument for your study as they relate to: Disease specific or general questionnaire Appropriateness of language and comprehensibility Outcomes captured…..relevance USE REFERENCES! Assignment 8: Please conduct a literature search regarding the reliability and validity of several survey instruments to assess overactive bladder (OAB). Summarize the findings of your research and discuss which instrument you would select for measuring a new pharmaceutical agent to treat OAB. USE REFERENCES! |
