Community Pharmacy Medication Adherence Study
A survey-based study on why patients skip doses, and which pharmacy-level interventions actually seem to help.
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Overview
A small-scale survey study conducted with a local community pharmacy, looking at self-reported reasons for medication non-adherence among patients managing chronic conditions.
The Problem
Non-adherence is consistently linked to worse outcomes and higher long-term costs, but the reasons behind it vary by patient, and pharmacy-level interventions are rarely tested directly against each other.
Methodology
I designed and distributed a short anonymous survey to consenting patients picking up chronic-condition prescriptions, then analyzed responses for common barriers and cross-referenced them against which patients had received specific pharmacist counseling.
Results
Cost and forgetfulness were the two most commonly cited barriers, and patients who received brief verbal counseling at pickup self-reported higher adherence confidence, though the sample size was too small to draw strong conclusions.
Future Directions
A larger, multi-site version of this study using actual refill-rate data, rather than self-reported adherence, would give a much clearer picture of which interventions are worth scaling.