Abstract

CHAVES TORRES, NINFA MARLEN et al. VALIDATION OF THE MORISKY 8 ITEMS SCALE IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE. rev.fac.med [online]. 2016, vol.24, n.2, pp.23-32. ISSN 0121-5256.  https://doi.org/10.18359/rmed.2627.

Introduction: It is important to provide long-term, adequate and timely treatment of the Chronic kidney disease, by pharmacological and non-pharmacological strategies, however, low adherence of patients to drug treatment puts at risk the effectiveness of the intervention. Objective: Translate to Spanish, validate and adapt the scale of adherence Morisky 8 items patients with chronic kidney disease. Materials and methods: Translation from MMAS-8 was performed according to the guidelines for the translation and adaptation of measuring instruments for use in medical research. It was validated by expert judgment following the Delphi method. A pilot study was conducted cross-sectional, where 30 patients who consulted predialysis renal unit of the central military hospital in Bogota Colombia was surveyed. Results: MMAS-8 Scale translated into Spanish was submitted to the judges for validation, obtaining a percentage of agreement equal to or greater than 80% for all questions, the coefficient of Kendall W in this case was 0.8 with a p value of 0.0001 was calculated and it is interpreted as a high degree of consistency between the assessments made by the judges to the different items of the questionnaire. MMAS-8 is applied to 30 patients with a mean age 75.9 years (+/- 15), the level of adherence to treatment is performed according to the scale score Morisky 8 items, classified as low adherence to treatment in 62.5% of cases with lower score of 6, adhesion median 28.1% of patients score between 6 and 7, and high adhesion only 9.4% of patients with major score of 8. Conclusions: The scale measuring adherence Morisky 8 items It is valid to measure adherence to drug treatment of patients with chronic kidney disease according to expert judgment.

Keywords : Medication Adherence; Chronic renal insufficiency; Validation.

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