Table 2.
Antithrombotic health self-management and association with self-report of warfarin self-cessation of patients who had mechanical valve replacement for RHD in Fiji (n=127)
| Sample |
Self-ceased warfarin completely |
p Value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agree |
No (n=110) |
Yes (n=17) |
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| n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | ||
| Warfarin | |||||||
| Sometimes I can't be bothered taking | 33 | (26) | 20 | (18) | 13 | (76) | <0.001 |
| Sometimes I forget to take | 36 | (28) | 22 | (20) | 14 | (82) | <0.001 |
| Having to take daily warfarin tablets bothers me | 18 | (16) | 96 | (76) | 13 | (76) | <0.001 |
| Having to remember to take daily warfarin tablets interferes with my life | 34 | (27) | 21 | (19) | 13 | (76) | <0.001 |
| I don't understand the need for warfarin | 23 | (18) | 12 | (11) | 11 | (65) | <0.001 |
| I am afraid I may bleed | 51 | (40) | 40 | (36) | 11 | (65) | 0.027 |
| INR testing at heart clinic | |||||||
| The blood tests are painful | 72 | (57) | 58 | (53) | 14 | (82) | 0.022 |
| Having to have regular blood tests bothers me | 38 | (34) | 77 | (61) | 12 | (71) | 0.005 |
| Having to have blood tests interferes with my life | 68 | (54) | 54 | (49) | 14 | (82) | 0.010 |
| I don't understand the need for these blood tests | 24 | (19) | 11 | (10) | 13 | (76) | <0.001 |
| Heart clinic attendance | |||||||
| Sometimes I can't be bothered going | 32 | (26) | 24 | (22) | 8 | (47) | 0.026 |
| Sometimes I forget to go | 14 | (11) | 10 | (9) | 4 | (24) | 0.094 |
| Having to attend regular clinics interferes with my life | 88 | (69) | 75 | (68) | 13 | (76) | 0.491 |
| I don't understand the need for heart clinic attendance | 14 | (11) | 9 | (8) | 5 | (29) | 0.022 |
INR, international normalised therapeutic ratio; RHD, rheumatic heart disease.