青光眼患者用药依从性的影响因素及解决方法

Influential factors and resolutions to medication adherence in glaucoma patients

青光眼患者用药依从性直接关系到眼压控制与维护视功能的效果,然而患者在实际生活中往往由于各种因素不按医嘱用药,甚至中断用药导致疗效不佳,从而产生了一些不良反应。因此了解并重视青光眼患者用药依从性,是临床工作中不可缺少的环节。就近年关于青光眼用药依从性的不同影响因素及其解决策略做一综述。

Although adherence to medication regimen in glaucoma patients is important to well controlled ocular tension and good visual function, glaucoma patients may not take medicine following the doctors＇ orders even stop it sometimes because of kinds of factors in real lives. Clinicians need to distinguish between problems of efficacy versus those of adherence and persistence in order to achieve the best possible patient outcomes and to avoid making unnecessary and costly changes in therapy. So, clinicians should think highly of the medication adherence in glaucoma patients in clinical works. This review summarized reported articles about medication adherence in glaucoma in recent years to examine the factors affecting compliance in order to suggest ways of improving compliance with eye drops.