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Aim: Medication compliance is essential in controlling symptoms in chronic diseases such as asthma. The aim of this study was to evaluate treatment satisfaction in asthmatics who have been regularly receiving one or more inhaled devices.
Methods: Satişfaction of treatment was evaluated by a questionnaire consisting of 4 categories (effectiveness, ease of use, burden of medication, side effects) and 26 statements. Each comment was graded from 1 to 7, where 1 indicated complete disagreement with the statement and 7 indicated complete agreement.
Results: Sixty-seven patients completed the questionnaire. Fourteen of the patients were male and 53 were female and the mean age was 40.8 ± 13.7 years. Forty-nine (73%) of the patients were receiving single inhaled device, 18 were receiving two inhaled devices (26%) and 2 were using additional oral theophylline. Mean satisfaction scale was 5.8±2 for effectiveness of asthma medication, 6.3± 1.7 for ease of use, 3.9±2.6 for burden of medication and 3.1 ±2 for side effects.
Conclusion: In this study, mean values for effectiveness and ease of use were found to be higher and burden of asthma medication and concern regarding side effects were found to be lower. This data suggests that satisfaction with treatment was good in asthmatic patients who were regularly and closely followed in the asthma outpatient clinic.