Section | Area of focus | Content | Completion method |
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1 | Current medicines | Medicines being taken, administration times, why the patient takes them | List of medicines; tick when they take them; state why they take them |
2 | Understanding and satisfaction with medicines | Understanding of why medicines were prescribed, whether the patient is convinced of the importance of these medicines, whether they feel that their medicines are working | Four-point Likert scale (strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree); free text for comments |
3 | Concerns about medicines | Level of worry that medicines will cause more harm than good, concern about being on too many medicines, and whether medicines need to be altered because of actual or perceived harm | Four-point Likert scale (strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree); free text for comments |
4 | Practical barriers to adherence | Problems with opening medicine packaging or reading labels, swallowing problems, and issues with obtaining repeat prescriptions | Four-point Likert scale (strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree); free text for comments |
5 | Fitting medicines into daily routine | Issues with forgetfulness and inconvenience due to taking medicines | Four-point Likert scale (strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree); free text for comments |
6 | Adherence to individual SPMs | Adherence levels with each separate SPM being taken | Five-point Likert scale for how often each medicine was taken as prescribed in the past month (all of the time; nearly all of the time; most of the time; about half the time; less than half the time) |
Final | Other | Any other issues that the patient wishes to raise | Free text |