Association of adherence to therapy and complementary and alternative medicine use with demographic factors and disease phenotype in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

Lakatos, Péter László and Czeglédi, Zsófia and Dávid, Gyula and Kispál, Zsófia and Kiss, Lajos Sándor and Palatka, Károly and Miheller, Pál and Szamosi, Tamás and Papp, Mária and Bene, László and Lakatos, László (2010) Association of adherence to therapy and complementary and alternative medicine use with demographic factors and disease phenotype in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. JOURNAL OF CROHN'S & COLITIS , 4 (3). pp. 283-290. ISSN 1873-9946

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Abstract

Background and aims: Previous studies have suggested an increasing use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Furthermore, a significant number of IBD patients fail to comply with treatment. The aim of our study was to evaluate the prevalence of non-adherence and the use of CAM in Hungarian patients with IBD. Methods: A total of 655 consecutive IBD patients (CD: 344, age: 38.2 [SD 12.9] years; UC: 311, age: 44.9 [15.3] years) were interviewed during the specialist visit by self-administered questionnaire including demographic and disease-related data as well as items analyzing the extent of non-adherence and CAM use. Patients taking more than 80% of each prescribed medication were classified as adherent.

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