TY - JOUR JF - gums-cjns JO - Caspian J Neurol Sci VL - 3 IS - 3 PY - 2017 Y1 - 2017/8/01 TI - Non-adherence to Disease-Modifying Treatments in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis TT - N2 - Background: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating disease of the central nervous system. Usually, long-term MS medications are injected intramuscularly or subcutaneously, making them intolerable for many MS patients. Objectives: In the present study, the rate and the causes of non-adherence to MS disease-modifying drugs (DMDs) were assessed in patients with MS. Materials and Methods: Two hundred and three MS patients of Guilan MS Society were interviewed demographic and clinical data of the patients were collected. Results: Among the 203 patients, 73.9% were female. The mean±SD age of the patients was 32.47±9.15. Non-adherence to DMDs was due to side effects (21.7%) and requests of the families (21.7%) or ineffectiveness (17.4%). Significant association was seen between the non-adherence to DMDs and gender (p=0.015) and relapses (p=0.021). Conclusion: The evidence from the present study suggests that there is a high rate of non-adherence to DMDs in MS patients in Guilan. SP - 128 EP - 134 AU - Roudbary, Seyed-Ali AU - Yousefzadeh-Chabok, Shahrokh AU - Behzadnia, Hamid AU - Bakhshayesh-Eghbali, Babak AU - Emamhadi, Mohamadreza AU - Ghayeghran, Amirreza AU - Hatamian, Hamidreza AU - Saberi, Alia AU - Andalib, Sasan AD - Department of Neurosurgery, Poursina Hospital, School of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, IranFaculty of Medicine, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran; neurosurgery95@gmail.com KW - Multiple Sclerosis KW - Medication Adherence UR - http://cjns.gums.ac.ir/article-1-178-en.html DO - 10.18869/acadpub.cjns.3.10.128 ER -