Health ministry of republic of moldova the university of medicine and pharmacy nicolae testemiţanu

 
forgetfulness
 
is a widely reported factor that causes 
non-compliance with medication or clinic appointments. Also, written 
instructions are better than oral advice for reminding patients to take me-
dication. 
Questions for self-evaluation: 
1.
In what consists the sick role of a patient? 
2.
Enumerate the main peculiarities of a patient. 
3.
Explain the term a “good” patient. 
4.
Enumerate the main patients’ expectations from their doctors. 
5.
Define the “difficult” patient. 
6.
Explain in what boils down the strategy of any good communi-
cation. 
7.
What methods can be used to increase therapeutic compliance? 
8.
What problems create the therapeutic non-compliance? 
9.
Describe the patients with “poor compliance”. 
10.
Describe the behaviour of health literacy patient. 
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