This is a fascinating study that has real implications for fitness and strength regime programming.

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“Why do patients struggle with their medicines?—A phenomenological hermeneutical study of how patients experience medicines in their everyday lives”

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Findings from this study highlight five main themes where participants experience medicines as: 1) life-saving and indispensable, 2) normal and a daily routine, 3) confusing and concerning, 4) unsuitable without adjustment, and 5) intrusive and unwelcome. These results can be the basis for mutually agreed prescribing through a co-creative approach that aims at enhancing open and honest dialogues between patients and healthcare professionals in partnership about medicines.

The conclusion was “In conclusion, the results from this study indicate the need for a co-creation of a treatment plan in partnership between patients and healthcare providers when prescribing medicines. This research can be seen as a call to action for researchers who focus on improving medicine-taking to recognise the importance of the patients’ lived experiences of medicine-taking and how this may impact on their actual medicine-taking”

This has impolications in the strength and fitness arena! programmes must be built in partnership with the client!