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By Pat Bass, About.com Guide to Asthma

Asthma Compliance

Monday March 2, 2009

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?

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