Asthma Compliance

How compliant are you with your asthma medication regimen? Depending on where you look, noncompliance with asthma regimens ranges from 10-46%. According to Katie M Buston and Stuart F Wood of the MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit in Glasgow, Scotland, patients commonly cite the following as reasons for non-compliance:

• forgetfulness
• belief that asthma medication is ineffective
• denial that one is an asthmatic
• difficulty using asthma inhalers
• inconvenience
• fear of medication side effects
• embarrassment and laziness

So how compliant are you?