G K Rikabi
University of Southern Mississippi, USA
Title: Effective, safe, and patient-centered quality improvement: Adherence to lifestyle modifications in adult patients with dyslipidemia
Biography
Biography: G K Rikabi
Abstract
Background & Aim: Untreated dyslipidemia, which is a risk factor for cardiac illnesses, is a burden on individual of state and national levels due to morbidity, mortality and coronary heart disease-related costs. Implementation of patient-centered educational program improves patients’ care and health outcomes. Purpose of this study is to increase adherence to lifestyle modifications among patients with dyslipidemia.
Method: 17 subjects with dyslipidemia participated in a quasi-experimental pilot project. Qualitative and quantitative methodology was used. Measures were heart disease fact questionnaire, Framingham tool, and physiologic measurements. Interventions included motivational techniques-led individual and group interviews to explore patient-centered barriers and to discover strategies to adhere to lifestyle changes.
Conclusion: Patient-centered interventions to discover patients’ barriers and strategies to adhere to lifestyle modifications through motivational interviewing effect have increased patient knowledge on risks and prevention of coronary heart disease and enhanced adherence to lifestyle modifications.
Implication to Practice: The system change highlights the uniqueness of each person that require patient-centeredness and continuity of care to improve health outcomes.