Systematic review highlights key demographic, psychological, and treatment-related factors affecting medication adherence in heart failure patients.
Background: This research aims to identify the key factors influencing medication adherence among individualsdiagnosed with heart failureMethods: we searched PUBMED, Web of Science, and Scopus from January 2014 to October 2024 to locate the most recentoriginal cross-sectional studies that addressed the factors affecting medication adherence in patients with heart failure.Conclusion: The initial search identified 123 studies, of which we included 15 qualitative studies in the systematic review.We categorized the factors as patient-specific, disease- and treatment-specific, demographic-related, and psychologicalrelated.Education level, socioeconomic status, comorbidity, polypharmacy, marital status, depression and anxiety, patientproviderrelationships, self-efficacy, health literacy, and forgetfulness appeared to be the factors affecting medicationadherence in patients with heart failure from the studies.
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